Quiz

A quiz is a form of game or puzzle in which the players (as individuals or in teams), attempt to answer questions correctly.

As Competitions

Quizzes may be held on a variety of subjects (general knowledge, 'pot luck') or subject-specific. The format of the quiz can also vary widely. Popularly known competition quizzes include

Pub quizzes
Quizbowls
in Canada:
Reach for the Top
in the United States:
College Bowl
National Academic Quiz Tournaments
Academic Competition Federation
in the United Kingdom:
Quizzing.co.uk
123quiz.net
Buzzerquiz (dormant)
University Challenge (televised)
quiz board games:
Trivial Pursuit
TV quizzes, also called quiz shows (Game shows TV/Radio)
Jeopardy!
Who Wants to be a Millionaire
The Weakest Link
BBC's MasterMind

In Education

A quiz usually a form of student assessment, but often has fewer questions of lesser difficulty and requires less time for completion than a test.

Other Quizzes

Additionally, a personality quiz may be a series of multiple-choice questions about the respondent without right or wrong answers. The responses to these questions are tallied according to a key, and the result purports to reveal some quality of the respondent. This kind of "quiz" was originally popularized by women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan. They have since become common on the internet, where the result page typically includes code which can be added to a blog entry to publicize the result. These postings are common on LiveJournal.

There are also many online quizzes, many webmasters have quiz sections on their websites and forums, phpBB2 has one MOD (Modification) which allows users to submit quizzes, this is the Ultimate Quiz MOD.

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