quizとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /kwɪz/
• 韻: -ɪz

名詞

quiz (複数形 quizzes)

1. (dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
   • 1796, Fanny Burney, Camilla: or, A picture of youth, by the author of Evelina, page 99:

     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.

   • 1833, Maria Edgeworth, Moral Tales, volume 1, page 204:

     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.

   • 1803, Jane Austen, chapter 7, in Northanger Abbey‎^[1], published 1816:

     Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.

   • 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis‎^[2]:

     “I’m afraid you’re a sad quiz,” said Mrs. Bungay. ¶ “Quiz! never made a joke in my—hullo! who’s here? How d’ye do, Pendennis?

2. A competition in the answering of questions.

   We came second in the pub quiz.

   • 1997, Jennifer Coates, “The construction of a collaborative floor in women’s friendly talk”, in Talmy Givón, editor, Conversation: Cognitive, Communicative and Social Perspectives, page 72:

     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.

3. (education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
   • 2015 May 18, Matt Farrell and Shannon Maheu, “Why open-book tests deserve a place in your courses”, in Faculty Focus‎^[3]:

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

派生語

動詞

quiz (三人称単数 現在形 quizzes, 現在分詞 quizzing, 過去形および過去分詞形 quizzed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
   • 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis‎^[4]:

     he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room—

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     '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 […]

2. (transitive, archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
3. (transitive) To question closely, to interrogate.
4. (transitive) To instruct by means of a quiz.
5. (transitive, obsolete, まれに) To play with a quiz. (Can we add an example for this sense?)