quiz

«quiz» in Mova's school dictionary: a short test with questions — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (quiz, quizzes); verb (quiz, quizzes, quizzed, quizzing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A quiz is a short test with questions. tree →

2) A quiz is also a game where people or teams answer questions to win points. tree →

3) To quiz someone is to ask them many questions. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: questions and points — right answers, points per question, scores; points = right answers × points each, sometimes minus points for wrong answers. In everyday life: a spelling quiz, a pub quiz or school quiz night, quiz shows on TV. Phrases: «a quiz on», «pop quiz» (a surprise test), «quiz night», «quiz show».

examples

• The quiz has 20 questions. tree →
• Each right answer gets 5 points. tree →
• She got 3 wrong. tree →
• What was her score? tree →
• We had a quiz on times tables today. tree →
• Our team won the school quiz night. tree →
• Mum quizzed me about my day. tree →
• The teacher gave us a pop quiz. tree →
• To think that you could not understand that you were being quizzed. tree →

note

Plural «quizzes» (double z). Maths: points = right answers × points each; right answers = questions − wrong; a minus may come for wrong answers. Trap: «3 wrong» out of 20 means 17 right.

In the corpora

• A bot can be a good practice partner, for example quizzing times tables.
• Some books and quizzes still repeat the cliff myth, because people copy facts without checking where they came from.
• Revision games and quizzes are real practice, and they make it less stressful.
• Noah's dad plays a quiz game as if he knows everything.
• Leo in Boston blamed the WiFi, but the quiz website showed he had logged in at eight and played games for an hour.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «quiz» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.