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quiz

[kwiz] / kwɪz /
NOUN
questioning, often in an organized academic setting
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Navigate the early stages of the show in our quiz to find out.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Prove your skills by playing today’s quiz, with questions about King Henry VIII’s wives, U.S. vice presidents, the French Revolution, and more.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

Snarky fisking — responding to an article line-by-line — gave way to the quiz boom, which was consumed by the personal essay before the long decade of short-form video.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Nearly 1,000 people applied for a rare opening at the quiz show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Fizz posted a picture of the quiz team in Chicago on Instagram.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

And the chatbot will offer quizzes to help students deepen their understanding of a particular subject.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

But AI wasn’t allowed for quizzes or exams testing memorized subjects, said the 22-year-old, who majored in business computer information systems.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Buzzfeed, once an internet sensation known for its listicles, news and quizzes, has fallen on hard times.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

To support education and awareness, the researchers have released a curated deepfake dataset that includes interactive quizzes for training purposes.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026

Normally we didn’t have quizzes in math club, because it was a club not a class, but on Monday we had one.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Some of the White House aides have had to learn about AI as they go along and have quizzed those in the industry about how certain things work, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

When quizzed as to whether the whole narrative surrounding the IPO momentum could be lost if cheaper Chinese competition starts to eat into the market share, Ahn is realistic: “That’s a possibility, yes.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Grohl was quizzed by the pupils about his favourite toothpaste, to which he answered "whitening", before the star told anecdotes including of the time he broke his leg falling off stage in 2015.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Standing with Heidi on a beach in Hawaii, Pratt quizzed Jones about whether his remarks had been unfairly edited.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

She constantly quizzed me about what other kids would do, would buy, would say, would think.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

He spent time quizzing colleagues for insights into OpenAI’s future strategy, and some said he struck them as particularly interested in the company’s plans for securing computing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

At the Pentagon, Feinberg is known for frequently hosting meetings that last for hours, quizzing company bosses who visit and often staying at work until midnight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

But the idea of sitting down for a date and quizzing each other to see if you’re soulmates is like — what?!

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

He began a lifelong love of quizzing when playing board game Trivial Pursuit in the 1980s, and has since gone on to face down Anne Robinson in The Weakest Link and take on the Chasers.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025

We spend a couple of hours quizzing each other on military terms.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins




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