How To Use Quiz In A Sentence
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Often this is met with a quizzical expression and a demand for me to explain what I am asking them.
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I'm sorry to be such a marplot, but you can take it out in quizzing me after I'm gone.
Rose in Bloom
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I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season?
Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
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We overheard the teacher say there would be a pop quiz today.
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At the best of times, science leaves me with a quizzical expression on my face and a less than articulate ‘eh?’
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His parents said something about you missing lectures, or delivering the wrong lectures, or giving quizzes instead of lectures.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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Higher-level managers often spot-quiz supervisors about their new employees: What are his hobbies?
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Why do TV channels insist on added canned laughter and applause on quiz shows?
The Sun
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Nice to have a squiz at your site and your thoughts.
Australia's Own School of Landscape Painting II
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Today's pop quiz is in honor of an actress for whom I once had precious little respect and whose casting over any number of other performers got me feeling dischuffed to the point of, if not beyond, churlishness until one day I found myself inexplicably fond of her and ashamed of my earlier thuggish disrespect.
Who Goes There - Pop Quiz
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The solution to last week's quiz is on page 81.
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The teacher has handed out worksheets describing the weapons and siege engines which could have been used, and she is quizzing pupils about them.
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Well, she's the version of Samantha's sister (can't for the life of me remember the name, and I can't be bothered getting up to walk to my room and taking a squiz at the book).
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He continued in a quizzical tone.
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Holden looked at me quizzically, but did not enquire further.
ANTI-ICE
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On his face is the most comical, quizzical expression, which is probably exactly how most of us would look if stuffed.
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( "Tonight I'm going to put it to the supreme test!" says an inventor in "Aztec Mummy," and a silhouetted Joel replies, "The Cosmo sex quiz?")
'Cinematic Titanic' re-creates 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' in Washington
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It was not after all Social Text that drew the absurd conclusion about authoritarianism and elitism; it was Sokal, trying to ventriloquize work he didn't fully understand.
Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange
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Employers included a Quiznos sandwich shop and Banana Republic, the friend said.
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Often he would gently quiz them about their daily lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why are the peelers quizzing this innocent young derelict?
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There will be special quiz shows and the winners will be awarded with souvenirs to remind them of their participation in the fiesta.
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According to the survey, bosses thought the most effective method of reducing absence was ‘return to work’ interviews, whereby a returning employee is quizzed about the illness.
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For the first time in many years we have a quiz team in the final.
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Cops have been given more time to quiz alleged accomplices after raids last week in West London.
The Sun
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And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar.
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The rebrand is a bid by BBC management to expand the awareness of its digital stations, with extended versions of Radio 4 favourites such as The Now Show and The News Quiz, and Archers spin-off Ambridge Extra.
Chris Evans loses half a million listeners from Radio 2 breakfast show
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The guild are running the quiz in aid of Laois Hospice and hopes for plenty of support.
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There was only a fifty percent chance that they'd actually get quizzed on the material tomorrow, but she couldn't chance it.
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Dev quizzed Jacquie about Hubert's movements in the last days before the Germans went.
DISPLACED PERSON
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The format of the new quiz show has proved popular.
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I was really amused by Chiaki's pickled ginger sushi, mostly because I was reminded of the web quiz where one of the Lucky Star girls got classified as gari (Konata?) after making fun of another (Kagami) who had been classified as kappa maki (cucumber roll): Is that even sushi?
Anime Nano!
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In fact, maybe they should just install quiz machines like they have in pubs.
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Answer our fun quiz and find out.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, the BBC/Media Studies quizette was a doddle (6/7, no bother: and I'm guessing I failed on the same one as Nich).
Meeja studies
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Take our quiz, with answers below.
The Sun
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The quiz showed up Cane's weak points in physics.
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A lawyer for the inquiry also quizzed Mr. Mohan about whether the Sun objectifies women with its daily Page 3 fixture, which features topless women.
Times of London Misled Court on Email Incident
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They were quizzed on suspicion of entertaining cops to win favours.
The Sun
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They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
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Last night Darren, Drew and I went to the Retro Bar pop quiz. £97 was up for grabs so the quiz was a toughie.
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Those who quiz the chief executive on the anaemic performance find a man willing to shrug his shoulders and admit that results have not been good enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the cricket world, with its benefit years, charity quizzes and galas, is quite good at rattling buckets.
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he looked at her, not wrathfully now, but quizzically
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Students receive credit for completing four online quizzes during the semester.
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To add to the excitement, a children's entertainer, competitions, quizzes and refreshments were included in the morning's entertainment.
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Just as an aside, Perry Forde, despite nicotine withdrawals was in fine fettle and led her team to victory in a riveting match-up led by quizmaster Billy Varley who also had to make the supreme sacrifice.
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Not only have I never "aced" a quiz, I generally guess wrong 3X before finally getting it right.
BSNYC Road Dairy (and very short Friday Fun Quiz!)
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The team shot quizzical glances at their new addition but made no move to get rid of him.
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At the end of your journey you can test your knowledge with a short quiz.
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Take part in fancy dress and face painting, have fun on the bouncy castles and enter drawing competitions and quizzes on the day to win prizes.
Times, Sunday Times
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And a fondness for watching daytime quiz shows.
The Sun
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It was daring of Mr. Holroyd to take on a major writer, and for all his forcing of themes, the book thrives on sheer wit and, most important, on welcome asides, when he steps forward like a Shakespearean character to soliloquize about his modus operandi.
The Biographers' Biographer
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The solution to last week's quiz is on page 81.
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He took part in a television quiz and won a prize.
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They quizzed me on my involvement in the scheme.
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Children have been firing questions to their new friends by email, quizzing them on how long it takes to get to class and what a typical school meal is made up of.
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Then we discovered that when the Auditor-General went in there to have a squiz, the officials did not even know whom they had been giving it to.
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Swift employs what is fundamentally a trope of garrulity: a single voice is allowed to soliloquize at length.
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The magazine publishes a quiz once a month.
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With a total of 80 questions, the fundraising quiz tests local knowledge covering everything from local history to culture and sport in the area.
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I saw the quizzical look in his eyes and knew at once what he was thinking.
Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
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Along the way, the automatic tutor would quiz the student and respond to questions, much as a human tutor does.
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The poll quizzed south-east Londoners on what they treasure most and least about the UK, in an attempt to find out what the UK's national treasure is.
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Just about every quiz show on television ends with some sort of vote to send a contestant packing.
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I join the shadows on the wall / To watch with weary silver eyes / Poets who soliloquize …
The Night Of the Solstice
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I also e-mailed you regarding your fish identity quiz and the fact that fish 6 is identified as a coley but the photo is of a pollock.
In praise of … the Big Fish Fight | Editorial
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This software can also be used for online quizzes and interactive games and videos.
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Complete our quick quiz opposite to assess your risk.
The Sun
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They quizzed me on my involvement in the scheme.
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Then on the following Wednesday, December 5, there'll be a quiz night for teams of four.
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He was playing with them and answering the simple quiz questions that the girls are asking.
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At best, they receive a few quizzical stares, a couple of thumbs-up signs and a desperate waving of white flags.
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The lady spies my quizzical look.
Times, Sunday Times
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In what chapter of eyeshield 21 does Sakuraba lose the quiz game and is forced to wear a maid outfit?
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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Quiz competitions are always a learning experience - whether you are a participant or part of the audience or a quizmaster.
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The members participate the panel show "The L'Arquiz" which is a quiz about L'Arc~en~Ciel as a solutionist.
~ listen the world ~
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Meanwhile, former IRA hunger striker and Old Bailey bomber Marian Price is still being quizzed about dissident republican actions by the PSNI.
Queen's visit to Ireland could mark the start of a new era, says Gerry Adams
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Take our quiz to see if you should join the statin army too.
The Sun
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This was followed by a short quiz to see which fire safety slogans we could remember.
TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
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Mr Ashman, who has now turned into a professional question setter for radio quiz shows, said it was nice for England to bring home at least one trophy this year.
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Employers included a Quiznos sandwich shop and Banana Republic, the friend said.
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I get fed up with television quiz shows.
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More than half of people quizzed confessed to avoiding wines whose names they could not pronounce.
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But the quiz also slipped in one that was new to me, the acronym ASL age, sex, location that is an obvious red flag the sender has bad intentions.
Kristin Maschka: Smart Girl's Guide to the Internet
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The Parent Staff Friends Association began fundraising two years ago with events such as quiz nights, a dance and a Christmas fair.
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I got exempted from a quiz just for answering a question and then in math, we were going to have a chapter test, but the teacher told us that she thought we were all ready to move on.
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He says a quizmaster is supposed to know all the answers.
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When quizzed by her superiors, Mrs Davies said she was trying to be 'laddish' and
Home | Mail Online
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The organisers of the table quiz would like to thank all the pupils that participated, their teachers and parents, the quiz master and scorekeepers and the Bee Park Community Centre, as well as its staff.
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I paid close attention to everything he said, but still came up short on tests and quizzes.
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The quiz will be a team event organized by the local school.
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A standard radio studio of that era could be a very intimidating place, and a theatre would create a much better atmosphere for radio comedy, variety shows or quizzes.
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I now know what the word macerated means after Elliots quiz.
At My Table
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The most perfect evening I had recently was being on the winning team in a pub quiz in a London club.
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After passing up their homework, the class took out a sheet of paper and their writing materials for their quiz.
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However, Good on her to finally get out of the house, learn Engligh and get a job! squiz, how is the woman a "burden on the state" when she's educated herself, is employed and pays taxes?
Evening Standard - Home
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Many of the poems ventriloquize, slipping into the voices of better-known poets.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The quiz is a battle of the sexes between a team of male students and a team of female students.
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Over the course of the semester, students take 13 weekly quizzes and the highest 10 count in their course grade.
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Work your mind with brain-teasers, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords or quiz books.
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Anglia Television also managed to have a share of the children's market, when they networked a quiz series for children based on the similarly named natural history series, ‘The Survival Game’.
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Theodore didn't say anything; he merely looked at David with a quizzical expression.
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The kitten gave her a quizzical look but did not let out a mew.
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The booming voice of the quizmaster is being punctuated by the beep of mobile phones receiving text messages.
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He sounded rather quizzical and calm despite the equivalent of an Uzi being thrust at his throat.
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As Kant was to write, however, as if to ventriloquize Locke's own anxiety about the "violence" (Essay 2: 161) of the mind's tendency to find alternate paths of cognition, "The point of excess for the imagination ... is like an abyss in which it fears to lose itself
Introduction
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One to remember for the pub quiz.
Times, Sunday Times
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The quiz will be a team event organized by the local school.
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It seems only 14 per cent of those quizzed said they felt guilty using the Internet at work for personal reasons.
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Math quiz program for addition, subtraction, multiplication and revision of wrong answers.
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The novelcame to me this wayas if told by the various Wongs at a very long family therapy session, only without the therapist, and with license, it seems, to soliloquize.
A Conversation with Gish Jen about The Love Wife
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I am good at quizzes that involve logic 41.
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We will miss that quizzical, inquiring, genial but incisive mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the man himself was modesty personified as he was quizzed about his brilliant form.
The Sun
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She was quizzed on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering before being bailed, police said.
The Sun
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I get fed up with television quiz shows.
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The day before that police quizzed him as a witness.
The Sun
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This film is more or less exactly why the average filmgoer prefers the inanity of quiz shows to unconventional arthouse fare.
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The week-long celebrations, which commenced on Monday last, included contests in quiz, elocution, dance, singing, mono action and hand-writing, besides a number of sports and games.
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Audience participation was animated to the point that the quizmaster had to hush the audience during the tie to pre-empt prompts.
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In fact, having a squiz at David's site has convinced me to have a go at formatting this via CSS rather than through tables.
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Here's a quick culinary quiz for anyone who spent their college years racking up enough student loan debt to re-decorate a corporate CEO's office bathroom while being forced to subsist on food so vile it would make Upton Sinclair hurl from the grave.
Rabbit or Ramen Noodles?
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It gives an overview of British society and history and devotes chapters to the eight topics that candidates will be quizzed on in the test.
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It is one thing to put questions of this kind in a light-hearted quiz.
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There were also table football challenges, quizzes, raffles, tombolas and cake stalls.
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We teased her a bit during the quiz but she didn't cotton (geddit!) on until the end.
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But Seaton only lost out on the top mark for having had three z 's in the word quizzical.
FAIRYLAND
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Two men were yesterday being quizzed by cops after being arrested on suspicion of burglary.
The Sun
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The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
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Let's quiz them on these issues, try to elicit some real information.
Times, Sunday Times
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The earliest section of the quiz requires you to match the replies given by some random selection of, eek, ordinary people.
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At night the entertainment really gets into full swing with quizzes, prize bingo, discos, cabaret acts and shows.
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They must pay for these classes and take whiz quizzes to make sure they remain on the path of righteousness and not recidivate back into the dangerous world of marijuana abuse.
The War on Sense
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Seven teams from around the Diocese competed in the quiz.
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The evening proceeded with a fun quiz and was followed by a musical quiz.
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Answer our fun quiz and find out.
Times, Sunday Times
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And twenty per cent of the 2,000 adults quizzed think they are about to become obsolete.
The Sun
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You totally said that to Mr. Roberts last week when he was running through the geography prep quiz in fourth period.
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He is being quizzed by murder squad detectives.
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I hate being quizzed, so a little spark of anger flared in me.
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He has already introduced race nights, fancy dress parties and a pop quiz to the award-winning boozer.
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To millions of schoolchildren, the word tense meant only how you felt before a pop quiz.
No Uncertain Terms
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Trivia quizzes apart, it could be argued that there is little to be gained from digesting these nuggets of information.
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The judge will quiz jurors individually about their views on abortion and the insanity defense beginning Tuesday.
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That's just a couple of nativities and maybe a charity quiz night: easy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Try a pop and movies quiz, with a prize for the child or group who gets the most answers right.
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All I asks is," quoth the fellow with a quizzical look, "how you've fobbed the nubbing-cheat so long!
Black Bartlemy's Treasure
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The warrior Coriolanus is perhaps the most opaque of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, rarely pausing to soliloquize or reveal the motives behind his prideful isolation from Roman society.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Quizzed by fellow judges on the Judicial Services Commission and the Minister and Deputy Minister of Justice, Langa dismissed reports that he was a transformation "gradualist".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Ask in any pub quiz “who captained the Enterprise in the original series of Star Trek?” and every team will score a point from scribbling ‘Captain Kirk.’
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1092
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We were quizzed on our views about education.
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Despite being named in police files, officers had not quizzed him.
The Sun
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Answer our fun quiz and find out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dog training school salvinia from kia am reeking in la was quizzically to ask unwillingly the pairing, and nosecount nazimova endogenous to luckiness that eternally was any gutter.
Rational Review
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The winners were selected through a series of studio quizzes and interviews by panels including university representatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eight of the suspects were today being quizzed by detectives at undisclosed police stations.
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The quiz will be a team event organized by the local school.
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Those who quiz the chief executive on the anaemic performance find a man willing to shrug his shoulders and admit that results have not been good enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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I raised a quizzical eyebrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take part in fancy dress and face painting, have fun on the bouncy castles and enter drawing competitions and quizzes on the day to win prizes.
Times, Sunday Times
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• A comment piece yesterday about the departure of Andy Gray from Sky Sports incorrectly stated that Richard Keys quizzed Jamie Redknapp about a woman called Louise, whom it labelled the footballer's "wife".
Corrections and clarifications
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Naturally, because his quiz is a very serious thing indeed, he managed to keep his guard up despite the neat vodka he was drinking.
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People are getting the opportunity to quiz all sides and the No campaign is being exposed as being composed of scaremongers.
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Here's a quorum of such quatches ripe for revival, ready for your quaintance: quaddle (grumble), quizzity (oddity), querken (stifle), quiddle (dawdle), querimony (complaint), queme (pleasant), quetch (go), queeve (twist in a road).
'Roads to Quoz'
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Think about it --- darts matches, quizzes, a pub football team, theme nights, karaoke.
TICKLED PINK
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The documents, hard disks and DVDs will be scanned after which former directors and other senior officials of Satyam will be "quizzed", Kaumudi said.
Top Stories - Google News
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Winning the quiz, aside from the kudos and respect from your peers, nets you eight pints of beer or lager.
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The quiz will be a team event organized by the local school.
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The country music star is all butterflies and Jesus love onstage, but this scintillating Facebook quiz of a listicle is a cry for help from a cold, lonely prison.
Gawker
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Two in five of those quizzed reckon their IT department will prevent them from falling victim to threats such as spyware and phishing.
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 But the quiz also slipped in one that was new to me, the acronym ASL age, sex, location that is an obvious red flag the sender has bad intentions.
Kristin Maschka: Smart Girl's Guide to the Internet
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He cocked a quizzical eyebrow at her.
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That's just the way this quiz format works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slumdog Millionaire, the tale of an 18-year-old slumdweller who goes on to become a millionaire by winning a quiz show, has been in the limelight after its eight oscar wins.
Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
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I'd like to querken your quiddles on the quizzities of the letter Q because they aren't queme and leave me quaddling and full of querimony.
'Roads to Quoz'
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Helen remembered that kind-hearted Cecilia had often remonstrated for humanity's sake, and stopped the quizzing which used to go on in their private coteries, when the satirical elder sister would have it that _le petit bossu_ was in love with Louisa.
Tales and Novels — Volume 10
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They are still quizzing four people on suspicion of murder.
The Sun
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So it was all a little unexpected, what with my boss in and yes, he quizzed me afterwards about the encounter and me not remembering the holiday and sitting there mixing milchik with fleischik and something was bound to happen.
Pen-Elayne on the Web
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The ministry source said that barring extradition, India can opt for videoconferencing, deposition and issuing letter rogatory to quiz Headley.
Analysis
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Next Tuesday a general knowledge quiz open to teams of four will be held.
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This excites me; not only for the potential insights it will bring to dark matter; not only for the wealth of new jokes Sheldon will inevitably soliloquize about on the “Big Bang Theory.”
CERN Celebrates, World Waits
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While not flexible enough to adjust for all situations, the quiz is a useful gauge.
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Our survey also found that 75 per cent of those quizzed knew three or more of their neighbours.
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He took part in a television quiz and won a prize.
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– - Bush getting “quizzed” by Larry King is like one of those lucky passengers bumped from a doomed flight.
Think Progress » Larry King plans to quiz Bush on Ken Lay, Lieberman.
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Let's quiz them on these issues, try to elicit some real information.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then there were two or three buckish looking young fellows, among the rest; who were all the time playing at cards on the poop, under the lee of the spanker; or smoking cigars on the taffrail; or sat quizzing the emigrant women with opera-glasses, leveled through the windows of the upper cabin.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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Programs will be offered in dressage, eventing, showing, jumping, mounted games, tetrathlons, quizzes, vaulting, fox hunting, and polocrosse.
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I get fed up with television quiz shows.
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PS The festivities may be drawing to a close but there is still time to banish hangovers and get those grey cells working in my seasonal quiz.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would you like to pit your wits against our quiz champion?
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Each quiz answer now sounded like part of a comedy sketch as we answered the previous question, by the end I was mopping my eyes, weeping with helpless laughter.
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This list wasn't originally intended for a quiz so some are absurdly easy and others impossibly hard.
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Our English teacher quizzed us yesterday morning.
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The protracted tape-recorded inquisition of Markham has only a few diverting moments—for instance, when Kubrick is quizzing the historian about Talleyrand and Napoleon's two-faced police chief, Fouché:
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
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I have many things to do, including boning up on current events - I'm auditioning for a spot on a quiz show tomorrow, and I don't want to make a fool of myself.
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Quizzed on the FA's federalism/confederalism anomalies, Mr
ANC Daily News Briefing
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After sweeping the Golden Globe awards, “Slumdog Millionaire,” the plucky movie about an uneducated underdog from the slums of Bombay who wins 20 million rupees on the local version of the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, has become the Oscar race overdog.
“Slumdog Millionaire”
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Let's quiz them on these issues, try to elicit some real information.
Times, Sunday Times