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▪ I. quiz, n.1|kwɪz|
Also 8 quis.
[Of obscure origin: possibly a fanciful coinage, but it is doubtful whether any reliance can be placed on the anecdote of its invention by Daly, a Dublin theatre-manager. Senses 3 and 4 are app. from quiz v.1 1.
The anecdote is given by Smart in his Walker Remodelled 1836, but is omitted in the ed. of 1840. The very circumstantial version in F. T. Porter's Gleanings & Reminiscences (1875) 32 gives the date of the alleged invention as 1791; but this is later than the actual appearance of the word and its derivative quizzity.]
1. An odd or eccentric person, in character or appearance. Now rare.
1782F. Burney Early Diary 24 June, He's a droll quiz, and I rather like him. 1785Span. Rivals 8 Ay, he's a queer Quis. 1793in W. Roberts Looker-on No. 54 (1794) II. 311 Some college cell, Where muzzing quizzes mutter monkish schemes. 1818Earl of Dudley Lett. 14 Feb. (1840) 196 Nor are we by any means such quizzes or such bores as the wags pretend. 1852Mrs. Smythies Bride Elect xiii, If she really means to marry that quiz for the sake of his thousands. 1857C. Brontë Professor iii, He was not odd—no quiz.
b. An odd-looking thing. rare—1.
1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. (1850) 26 Where did you get that quiz of a hat?
†2. = bandalore, q.v. Obs.
c1790in Moore Mem. I. 12 The Duke..was, I recollect, playing with one of those toys called quizzes. 1792B. Munchausen (1799) II. xi. 137 She darted and recoiled the quizzes in her right and left hand. a1833Moore Mem. I. 11 A certain toy very fashionable about the year 1789 or 1790 called in French a ‘bandalore’ and in English a ‘quiz’.
3. One who quizzes.
1797The Quiz No. 13. 85 Now, gentlemen, as you have taken to yourselves the name of Quizzes, I request to know [etc.]. 1836Ibid. No. 1. 4/2 A true Quiz is imperturbable: therefore is Talleyrand the Prince of Quizzers. 1870Q. Rev. July 238 She could write letters to Horace Walpole (perhaps because she knew him to be a quiz) in a vein untinctured by narrowness or pharisaism. 1899Eng. Hist. Rev. April 36 Braving the ridicule with which it pleased the quizzes of the day to asperse the husband chosen for her.
4. A practical joke; a hoax, a piece of humbug, banter or ridicule; a jest or witticism.
1807Antid. Miseries Hum. Life 121, I was engaged a few nights ago..in a good quiz for a watchman. 1810Scott Fam. Lett. 14 Apr. (1894) I. vi. 171, I am impatient to know if the whole be not one grand blunder or quiz. 1826― Jrnl. 11 Feb., I should have thought the thing a quiz, but that the novel was real. 1835Willis Pencillings II. lxiv. 189 Whipping in with a quiz or a witticism whenever he could get an opportunity. 1840Hood Up the Rhine 110 Frank said he was travelling for Rundell and Bridge, but I suspect that was only a quiz. 1850T. A. Trollope Impress. Wand. vi. 77 We have..a quiz on all and each of the newly-arisen tribe of journalists.
b. The act or practice of quizzing.
1819Quizzical Gaz. No. 5/1 The Editor..declares this the only article in the Paper devoid of Quiz. a1845Hood Tale Trumpet xxx, You may join the genteelest party that is, And enjoy all the scandal, and gossip, and quiz. 1870Green Lett. iii. (1901) 254 What a taste for a quiz a Professorship seems to develop.
▪ II. quiz, n.2 orig. U.S.|kwɪz|
[f. quiz v.2]
1. a. An act of quizzing or questioning; spec. an oral examination of a student or class by a teacher; one in written form upon a specified topic. Also, more generally: a set of questions to be answered as an entertainment, etc.; an informal questionnaire.
1867W. James Let. 26 Dec. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. xiv. 254 Occasional review articles, etc., perhaps giving ‘quizzes’ in anatomy and physiology..may help along. 1891in Cent. Dict. 1895J. W. Brown in Proc. 14th Convent. Instruct. Deaf 314 My first lesson should be in the form of a quiz. 1907Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 7 Feb. 16 For the food chemists the quiz included a study of both French and German. 1931H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. xvi. 228 This distinguished jurist agreed to lend books and give him a quiz each Saturday. 1941L. MacNeice Poetry of W. B. Yeats i. 114 We must..in literary criticism be careful not to write as if we were solving a popular Quiz—as if there were a stock set of answers. 1957Economist 19 Oct. 202 To what kind of searching test should an advertiser subject a prospective agent? A friendly personal quiz? 1973Houston Chron. Mag. 14 Oct. 16/4 The teacher erased the board, wrote up new multiplication problems, distributed paper and drilled for the next day's quiz.
b. A form of competitive entertainment, esp. on radio and television, in which questions are put to individuals or to a team.
1941Scribner's Commentator Feb. 86 (heading) Quiz by the Quiz kids. 1951Ann. Reg. 1950 415 The quiz mania showed no signs of abatement during the year. 1956B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 70 Archaeology triumphantly holds its special place with its somewhat unexpected quiz presentation of ‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?’ 1958Times 1 Aug. 11/1 In these days of brains trusts, musical quizzes, and increased attention to musical appreciation as a subject for schools and evening classes. 1976Loughborough Monitor 26 Nov., On November 17, Nanpantan [W.I.] were hostesses to Thorpe Acre and Mountfields in a three-cornered friendly quiz, with Mr. Peter Lewis as question master. 1977Evening Post (Nottingham) 24 Jan. 7/9 Tuxford Young Farmers A team defeated their B team in the third round of the county Inter-Club Quiz to reach the semi-finals.
2. attrib. and Comb.
a. Simple attrib., as quiz compère, quiz game, quiz-paper, quiz party, quiz programme, quiz show, quiz team, quiz-viewer; quiz-type adj.
1959Quiz compère [see hand n. 15].
1945East Jefferson Sentinel (Edgewater, Colorado) 26 July 5/4 Mrs Critchfield, chairman and hostess, then conducted three quiz games. 1959G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman i. 7 It was wonderful what you learned from the tee-vee..quiz games, politicians having arguments. 1967Listener 10 Aug. 170/3 The latter sit in the hotel night after night, sipping German beer and watching the quiz games on Indonesian TV.
1914D. R. Campbell Proving Virginia xiii. 226 The black-robed Seniors assembled..to perform the last holy rites over their antique manuscripts, quiz papers, precious testimonials of mid-night toil. 1936L. C. Douglas White Banners viii. 163 It was not easy to concentrate on classroom lectures, student interviews, quiz-papers, and seminars.
1949‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar vi. 47 He..had always come to an examination paper with the same faint pleasure that an addict brings to a quiz party.
1942D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) ii. 41 Five hundred rags and tags that..were nothing more than cues in a quiz program. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) i. 28 And now Captain Kidd in his Quiz Programme How Alert Are You. 1952W. R. Burnett Vanity Row (1953) xiv. 97 ‘What time did Ilona Vance call you last night?’..‘I don't like the quiz programme type of conversation.’ 1960Guardian 18 Oct. 10/4 Big-money winners on American television quiz programmes. 1972Language XLVIII. 341 Elicitory question intonation..presupposes that there is information being withheld, and hence is easily associated with teachers or quiz-program M.C.'s.
1946F. Wakeman Hucksters ii. 17 Vic had heard a story of how he went to a sponsor all primed to sell a quiz show. 1954G. Marx Let. 16 Aug. (1967) 93 The gibbering idiots on panel shows, quiz shows, and other half hours of tripe. 1961A. Miller Misfits ii. 18 Just say it: it doesn't have to be true. It's not a quiz show, it's only a court. 1974P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird (1975) xi. 149 Like all of us watching quiz shows I would call out answers I knew.
1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 155 The typically outspoken member in a radio quiz-team represents both the old-style ‘card’ and this modern allegorical figure, the ‘idiosyncratic hero’. 1976Lancs. Evening Post 7 Dec. 2/4 Preston's BBC Radio 2 quiz team to meet Blackpool's in a broadcast competition.
1963Times 19 Jan. 4/6 It was Sound, after all, which invented several other quiz, or quiz-type, programmes.
1959New Statesman 24 Jan. 107/2 Its audience was almost certainly enlarged this week by the unconscious sadism, latent in all quiz-viewers, which such entertainments harmlessly release and satisfy.
b. Special Combs.: quiz kid orig. U.S. [after whizz-kid], a child, usu. one of a team, chosen on account of his or her intelligence to answer extempore questions submitted by the audience of a quiz; also transf., an ostentatiously intelligent person; quiz-master, (a) (see quot. 1889); (b) one who presides over a quiz-game, esp. on radio or television; = question-master s.v. question n. 7 d.
1941Quiz kid [see sense 1 b above]. 1941F. Brown in Unknown Worlds Aug. 120/1 If the episode had become known..Herbie would..get more acclaim even than a quiz kid. 1959Encounter July 38/2 He [sc. Northcliffe] was a true child of the age—the first and greatest of all quiz-kids. 1972Times 19 Oct. 10/3 He suppresses his taste for swanky, quiz-kids words (telangiectatic, ichor, fastigiate).
1889Cent. Dict., Quiz-master, the teacher or leader of a quiz-class. 1949Radio Times 15 July 15/1 Round Britain Quiz... Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding. 1952News Chron. 15 Jan. 1/4 In ‘What's My Line’ on TV last night..Elizabeth Allan introduced Harding as ‘the Ace of Quizz-masters’. 1964C. Barber Ling. Change in Present-Day Eng. ii. 20 B.B.C. announcers may be less influential than comedians, quizmasters, compères, and ‘personalities’. 1976J. van de Wetering Corpse on Dike ii. 19 The voices of the comics..the quiz masters and the newscasters.
▪ III. quiz, v.1|kwɪz|
[Cf. quiz n.1]
1. trans. To make sport or fun of (a person or thing), to turn to ridicule; occasionally, to regard with an air of mockery.
1796Campaigns 1793–4, II. viii. 51 And quiz every blockhead accounted a boar. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. iv. 19 He spent his time in..ridiculing, or, in his own phrase, quizzing every sensible young man. 1825C. M. Westmacott English Spy I. 231 Quizzing the little daughter of Terpsichore through his eye-glass. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 113 Young gentlemen are apt to quiz; and I think that being quizzed hurts my authority with the men. 1874Green Short Hist. v. 214 Chaucer..quizzes in the rime of Sir Thopaz the wearisome idleness of the French romance.
absol.1815Sporting Mag. XLV. 161 All were sneering at Sam, and they quizz'd and they gaz'd. 1870Green Lett. iii. (1901) 254 What a charming tongue Latin is for quizzing in.
†2. intr. To play with a quiz (n.1 2). Obs.
a1800Moore in Mem. I. 11 The ladies too, when in the streets,..Went quizzing on, to show their shapes and graceful mien.
▪ IV. quiz, v.2 orig. dial. and U.S.|kwɪz|
Also quizz, dial. quies.
[Prob. a transferred use of prec., by association with question or inquisitive.]
1. trans.
a. To question, interrogate (a person); U.S. to examine (a student or class) orally (cf. quiz n.2). Also absol.
b. To find out (a thing) by questioning.
1847Southey Doctor VII. 85 She com back an' quiesed us. 1886Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk. s.v., Her on't be very long 'vore her'll quiz it all out. 1893Fergusson My Village xi. 99 She would gossip..and quiz her visitors as to what was going on in the village. 1922History Apr. 72 Only 43·4 per cent. of the teachers quiz in class. 1928J. Sykes M. A. Disraeli viii. 79 So far forgot his good manners as to quiz Mrs. Disraeli at the dinner-table. 1958Daily Mail 24 Feb. 12/1 To find him I had to drive to the sleepy Sussex town of Pulborough, quiz the locals, [etc.]. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xiii. 248 He quizzed him about emergency phone numbers.
2. trans. and intr. To watch or examine closely, to peer (at).
1906Hardy Dynasts II. ii. vi. 199 Better quiz evils with too strained an eye Than have them leap from disregarded lairs. 1909― Time's Laughingstocks 77 The stars..Quiz downward curiously. 1911C. Mackenzie Passionate Elopement 26 But somehow it was no longer amusing to quizz the young woman..through his ivory rimmed perspective.
▪ V. quiz, v.3 rare—1.|kwɪz|
[Echoic.]
intr. To make a whizzing sound.
1866Village on Cliff xiii. in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 526 There was a sound of grasshoppers quizzing at their feet. |