1797 Quiz No. 13. 84 At every corner, I am accosted by some of these Quizzers.

1798 A. Browne Misc. Sketches II. 215 A quizzer, said he, is a man, who thinks me a damn'd fool, because I do not think him a damn'd liar.

1810 W. Scott Let. May–June (1932) II. 346 This said Kehama affords cruel openings for the quizzers.

1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 124 The mischievous quizzers Sharp as knives but double as scissors.

1865 De Morgan in Athenæum 25 Nov. 730/1 His backers and his quizzers, his admirers and his wonderers.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 207 Halted below me, a quizzer looks at me.

1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. iii. 83 ‘You must have a quizzer.’ ‘What is that?’ said Edward. ‘Oh, an eye-glass.’

1871 H. B. Philleo in Wisconsin Editorial Assoc. Proc. 20 June 32 And off of his nose fell the gold mounted quizzors, And free from his grasp fell the talented scissors.

1988 Hobart (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 9 May Its near relative, the quizzer, was a monocle with a rear-view mirror attached so the wearer could see to the rear as well as ahead—an excellent way to keep track of romantic rivals.

1871 Times 25 July 4/3 One hardly knows..whether the King is the quizzer or the quizzed.

1905 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 21 Oct. 3/2 A leading attorney with a wide experience and a big reputation as a quizzer.

1978 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 2/7 Attempts to supplant the shareholder as a quizzer of companies, with questionnaires being sent to principal customers and competitors to elicit information which companies withhold.

1994 A. Sinclair In Love & Anger 34 The programme's presenter..was to grow from an assiduous quizzer into an articulate interviewer of the great and the celebrated.

1929 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 2 May Dear Quizzers... The rules permit a player to send in as many as six answers, or solutions, to each pictograph.

1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories i. 52 The sports quizzers had landed in Dempsey's.

2006 Mid Devon Gaz. (Nexis) 30 May 7 Twinning members welcomed about 60 keen quizzers to their quiz night in the town hall last week.

1949 Nebraska State Jrnl. 24 July d6/3 CBS' latest bit of nonsense, a 30-minute quizzer called ‘Spin to Win’, is at least more entertaining.

1958 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 2 Apr. 4/2 The questions on this daily quizzer are based on the what-is-its that make up aptitude tests.

2006 Daily Variety (Nexis) 5 June 8 GSN on the whole has reverted to a version of its former self (previously Game Show Network), with more conventional studio-based quizzers dominating primetime.