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   Quiz

   /kwiz/

   

   verb

   • 1. look curiously or intently at (someone) through or as if through an eyeglass: "deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight"
   • 2. make fun of: "he says there's a great deal of poetry in brewing beer, but of course he's only quizzing us"

   noun

   • 1. a practical joke or hoax; a piece of banter or ridicule: "I am impatient to know if the whole be not one grand quiz"
   • ▪ a person who ridicules or hoaxes another: "two ill-natured quizzes, who were suspected of writing for a very sarcastic paper"
   • 2. a person who is odd or eccentric in character or appearance: "she means to marry that quiz for the sake of his thousands"

   Word Origin late 18th century: sometimes said to have been invented by a Dublin theater proprietor who, having made a bet that a nonsense word could be made known within 48 hours throughout the city, and that the public would give it a meaning, had the word written up on walls all over the city. However, there is no evidence to support this theory.

   Scrabble Points: 22

   • Q

     10

   • U

     1

   • I

     1

   • Z

     10

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