What's the difference between quiz and raillery?

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 .

Raillery


Definition:

  • (n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This tremendous passage is of course a great deal more than the comedian's parting: "Bless you, you've been a wonderful audience, look after each other, thank you, good night," though it has some of the same effect, a moment of still truth in the midst of the carnival of wit and raillery.
  • (2) But receiving a lot of "only half good-natured raillery about being from the bush", allied to a period of depression, contributed to his leaving university in 1960 without completing his degree, to hitchhike round Australia.

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