quiz

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Attested since the 1780s, of unknown origin. * The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of whiz. * The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780). * Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive. * Some say without evidence it was invented by a late-18th-century Dublin theatre proprietor who bet he could add a new nonsense word to the English language; he had the word painted on walls all over the city, and the morning after, everyone was talking about it (The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin). * Others suggest it was originally quies (1847), Latin qui es? (who are you?), traditionally the first question in oral Latin exams. They suggest that it was first used as a noun from 1867, and the spelling quiz first recorded in 1886, but this is demonstrably incorrect. * A further derivation, assuming that the original sense is "good, ingenuous, harmless man, overly conventional, pedantic, rule-bound man, square; nerd; oddball, eccentric", is based on a column from 1785 which claims that the origin is a jocular translation of the Horace quotation vir bonus est quis as "the good man is a quiz" at Cambridge.

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: vasvrawedstryd — competition in the answering of questions
• Arabic: اِخْتِبَار (iḵtibār) — competition in the answering of questions
• Armenian: վիկտորինա (viktorina) — competition in the answering of questions
• Azerbaijani: viktorina — competition in the answering of questions
• Belarusian: віктары́на (viktarýna) — competition in the answering of questions
• Bulgarian: виктори́на (viktorína) — competition in the answering of questions
• Bulgarian: куи́з (kuíz) — competition in the answering of questions
• Burmese: ဉာဏ်စမ်း (nyancam:) — competition in the answering of questions
• Chinese Mandarin: 測驗 /测验 (cèyàn) — competition in the answering of questions
• Chinese Mandarin: 競猜 /竞猜 (jìngcāi) — competition in the answering of questions
• Czech: kvíz — competition in the answering of questions
• Danish: spørgekonkurrence — competition in the answering of questions
• Danish: quiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Dutch: kwis — competition in the answering of questions
• Dutch: quiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Esperanto: kvizo — competition in the answering of questions
• Estonian: mälumäng — competition in the answering of questions
• Estonian: viktoriin — competition in the answering of questions
• Faroese: spurnakapping — competition in the answering of questions
• Finnish: tietovisa — competition in the answering of questions
• Finnish: tietokilpailu — competition in the answering of questions
• French: quiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Georgian: ვიქტორინა (vikṭorina) — competition in the answering of questions
• Georgian: ქვიზი (kvizi) — competition in the answering of questions
• Georgian: გამოკითხვა (gamoḳitxva) — competition in the answering of questions
• German: Ratespiel — competition in the answering of questions
• German: Fragespiel — competition in the answering of questions
• German: Quiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Hebrew: חִידוֹן (ḥidón) — competition in the answering of questions
• Hindi: क्विज़ (kviz) — competition in the answering of questions
• Hindi: प्रश्नोत्तरी (praśnottarī) — competition in the answering of questions
• Hungarian: kvíz — competition in the answering of questions
• Indonesian: kuis — competition in the answering of questions
• Italian: quiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Japanese: クイズ (kuizu) — competition in the answering of questions
• Kazakh: викторина (viktorina) — competition in the answering of questions
• Korean: 퀴즈 (kwijeu) — competition in the answering of questions
• Kyrgyz: викторина (viktorina) — competition in the answering of questions
• Latvian: viktorīna — competition in the answering of questions
• Lithuanian: viktorina — competition in the answering of questions
• Macedonian: квиз (kviz) — competition in the answering of questions
• Malay: duga akal — competition in the answering of questions
• Malay: kuiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Maltese: kwiżż — competition in the answering of questions
• Māori: kēmu patapatai — competition in the answering of questions
• Norman: quiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjettekonkurranse — competition in the answering of questions
• Norwegian Bokmål: spørrelek — competition in the answering of questions
• Norwegian Bokmål: kviss — competition in the answering of questions
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spørjeleik — competition in the answering of questions
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kviss — competition in the answering of questions
• Persian: کوئیز (ku'iz) — competition in the answering of questions
• Polish: turniej — competition in the answering of questions
• Polish: quiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Polish: kwiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Portuguese: quiz — competition in the answering of questions
• Russian: виктори́на (viktorína) — competition in the answering of questions
• Russian: квиз (kviz) — competition in the answering of questions
• Serbo-Croatian: кви̑з — competition in the answering of questions
• Serbo-Croatian: kvȋz — competition in the answering of questions
• Slovak: kvíz — competition in the answering of questions
• Slovene: kviz — competition in the answering of questions
• Spanish: prueba — competition in the answering of questions
• Spanish: cuestionario — competition in the answering of questions
• Spanish: examen — competition in the answering of questions
• Spanish: test — competition in the answering of questions
• Swedish: frågesport — competition in the answering of questions
• Swedish: frågespel — competition in the answering of questions
• Swedish: kviss — competition in the answering of questions
• Tajik: викторина (viktorina) — competition in the answering of questions
• Turkish: bilgi yarışması — competition in the answering of questions
• Turkmen: wiktorina — competition in the answering of questions
• Ukrainian: віктори́на (viktorýna) — competition in the answering of questions
• Uzbek: viktorina — competition in the answering of questions
• Vietnamese: đố vui — competition in the answering of questions
• Welsh: cwis — competition in the answering of questions
• Bulgarian: тест (test) — a school examination of less importance
• Bulgarian: контро́лно (kontrólno) — a school examination of less importance
• Chinese Cantonese: 小測 /小测 (siu2 cak1) — a school examination of less importance
• Chinese Mandarin: 小考 (xiǎokǎo) — a school examination of less importance
• Faroese: roynd — a school examination of less importance
• Finnish: välikoe — a school examination of less importance
• Galician: control — a school examination of less importance
• Hungarian: röpdolgozat — a school examination of less importance
• Indonesian: kuis — a school examination of less importance
• Japanese: 小テスト (shō tesuto) — a school examination of less importance
• Macedonian: тест (test) — a school examination of less importance
• Malay: kuiz — a school examination of less importance
• Polish: kartkówka — a school examination of less importance
• Russian: тест (tɛst) — a school examination of less importance
• Russian: контро́льная рабо́та (kontrólʹnaja rabóta) — a school examination of less importance
• Spanish: prueba — a school examination of less importance
• Spanish: pruebita — a school examination of less importance
• Spanish: quiz — a school examination of less importance
• Tagalog: pagsusulit — a school examination of less importance
• Vietnamese: (bài) thi — a school examination of less importance
• Bulgarian: шегувам се (šeguvam se) — hoax
• Macedonian: се ше́гува (se šéguva) — hoax
• Serbo-Croatian: шалити се — hoax
• Serbo-Croatian: šaliti se — hoax
• Spanish: engañar — hoax
• Bulgarian: изпитвам (izpitvam) — interrogate
• Bulgarian: разпитвам (razpitvam) — interrogate
• Cebuano: tuki — interrogate
• Chinese Mandarin: 询问 (xúnwèn) — interrogate
• Georgian: გამოკითხვა (gamoḳitxva) — interrogate
• Georgian: დაკითხვა (daḳitxva) — interrogate
• German: ausfragen — interrogate
• Macedonian: пра́шува (prášuva) — interrogate
• Macedonian: и́спраша (íspraša) — interrogate
• Macedonian: и́спита (íspita) — interrogate
• Māori: pākiki — interrogate
• Serbo-Croatian: испитивати — interrogate
• Serbo-Croatian: ispitivati — interrogate
• Spanish: probar — interrogate
• Spanish: examinar — interrogate
• Spanish: interrogar — interrogate
• Spanish: testear — interrogate
• Ottoman Turkish: صورمق (sormak) — interrogate
• Ukrainian: опитування (opytuvannja) — interrogate