(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 .
Riddle
Definition:
(n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
(v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
(v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
(v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Example Sentences:
(1) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(3) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(4) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
(7) I just think of when I dressed Tom and brushed his hair when his remains were returned to me, his body riddled with bullet holes.
(8) These counter-transferential concerns ultimately made the woman's psychological essence an unknowable riddle for Freud.
(9) But it was not smart to tell Jemima Khan that the new-look Tory party was "riddled with gays".
(10) What they say "You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery" – Stephen Colbert
(11) The response of the authorities is riddled with contradictions.
(12) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur apartment in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(13) The dog shit – once warm, then frozen hard, and currently melting in the sun into pools of bacteria-riddled goop – and the used condoms and the defrosting vomit, the artifact of what some drunken bros ate on a wild February night preserved for the bottom of my shoe many weeks later.
(14) Police have carried out a series of operations against the Russian mafia and its money-laundering operations in Spain's corruption-riddled property sector over the past four years.
(15) She’s riddled with guilt now she sees that nothing has changed.
(16) The study reveals that while general awareness of AIDS is fairly good, detailed knowledge is riddled with misconceptions and confusion.
(17) Quite why Scotland Yard should behave like this remains unproved – another riddle waiting to be solved.
(18) Narendra Modi’s India, while growing quickly, remains riddled with uninvestigated corruption scandals .
(19) How apt that terms of bigotry should be riddled with class snobbery.
(20) The more serious riddle for the government is: how on earth did this policy get through in the first place?