What's the difference between question and quiz?

Question


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
  • (n.) Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
  • (n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
  • (n.) That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
  • (n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.
  • (n.) Talk; conversation; speech; speech.
  • (n.) To ask questions; to inquire.
  • (n.) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
  • (v. t.) To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
  • (v. t.) To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
  • (v. t.) To talk to; to converse with.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
  • (4) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (5) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (7) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (8) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
  • (9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
  • (10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (11) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (12) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
  • (13) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (14) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
  • (15) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
  • (16) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (17) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
  • (18) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
  • (19) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
  • (20) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?

Quiz


Definition:

  • (n.) A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
  • (n.) One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.
  • (n.) An odd or absurd fellow.
  • (n.) An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.
  • (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
  • (v. t.) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
  • (v. t.) To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.
  • (v. i.) To conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Jones was a governor, regular board meetings were held in which they could quiz management about editorial decisions ,as former chairman such as the now deceased Marmaduke Hussey regularly did.
  • (2) The quiz mode has multiple-choice questions and answers, accompanied by images.
  • (3) For a "free form" class project in senior year I did a quiz show-style performance piece based on her life ("Ted Hughes cheated on Sylvia Plath: True or False?")
  • (4) He says his job is to ‘base search on really understanding what the language means’.The most successful example of natural-language processing to date is IBM’s computer Watson, which in 2011 went on the US quiz show Jeopardy and won (shown above).
  • (5) USvTh3m, which aims to quickly develop humorous interactive quizzes and games based current news and events, developed the 13-question quiz following the Daily Mail's attack on Labour leader Ed Miliband's late father .
  • (6) By using Palmore's Facts on Ageing Quiz, it was determined that client selection did in fact make a difference vis-à-vis learning outcomes about ageing and the aged.
  • (7) Data were gathered using a Social Distance Scale, Goals of Life Index, Facts on Aging Quiz, and Aging Semantic Differentials.
  • (8) It remains to be seen what Ross, 49, will do next, although he has said he will continue to host the Bafta film awards, which he presented on BBC1 last month, as well as BBC1's Comic Relief and his regular end of year appearances on Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year, which is produced by his production company, HotSauce, which also makes his BBC1 show.
  • (9) A seven-word terminology quiz made up of words from the CUE form was also enclosed.
  • (10) , a US quiz show that has broadcast there for decades, will televise a contest between two of its past champions and a super-intelligent computer.
  • (11) Toksvig is standing down as the host of BBC Radio 4’s comedy show The News Quiz to set up the Women’s Equality party , which plans to field candidates in the 2020 general election.
  • (12) The education committee held hearings to quiz Spielman , and its report concludes that she “did not demonstrate sufficient vision or show the leadership abilities we feel will be needed.
  • (13) It followed a celebrity edition of the Channel 4 quiz 15 to One, hosted by Adam Hills, which had 1.6 million viewers (7.9%) between 8pm and 9pm.
  • (14) ITV's live football coverage on Wednesday afternoon will run from 3.30pm to 6.10pm, dropping, among other shows, the Bradley Walsh quiz The Chase.
  • (15) However, one of the answers was "sailcloth", which viewers were unable to identify because it ends with H rather than T. The Quiz call presenter apologised to viewers and Five later described it as "an innocent yet stupid mistake".
  • (16) UsvsTh3m , the Daily Mirror publisher's Buzzfeed-style social content offering, is expected to reach 3 million unique users in October, thanks largely to interactive quiz "How much are you hated by the Daily Mail?"
  • (17) It has a chess club, cake sales, regular pub quiz nights and an internal puzzle newsletter called Kryptos.
  • (18) It was a quiz question: should Russia have surrendered and saved countless lives?
  • (19) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
  • (20) Identifying Donald Trump's foreign policy – a quiz with no right answers | Lawrence Douglas Read more No student of history, Trump may or may not have been aware that his attack on Syria coincided with the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the first world war .