Quiz vs. Seatwork — What's the Difference?

A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which players attempt to answer questions correctly about a certain or variety of subjects. Quizzes can be used as a brief assessment in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, or skills.

Lessons assigned to be done by students at their desks in the classroom.

A test of knowledge, especially as a competition between individuals or teams as a form of entertainment

(US) The schoolwork done by students sitting at their desks during schooltime.

A practical joke or hoax

An odd or eccentric person

Ask (someone) questions

Look curiously or intently at (someone) through or as if through an eyeglass

Make fun of

To question (someone), especially closely or repeatedly

To test the knowledge of by posing questions

(Archaic) To poke fun at; mock.

A questioning or inquiry.

A short oral or written test.

(Archaic) A practical joke.

(dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.

(dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.

A competition in the answering of questions.

(education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

(transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.

(transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.

To play with a quiz. en

A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.

One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.

An odd or absurd fellow.

An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.

To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

An examination consisting of a few short questions

Examine someone's knowledge of something;