Quiz vs. Trivia — 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.

Trivia is information and data that are considered to be of little value. It can be contrasted with general knowledge and common sense.

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

Plural of trivium.

A practical joke or hoax

The lower division of the seven liberal arts in medieval schools, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

An odd or eccentric person

Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information.

Ask (someone) questions

A quiz game that involves obscure facts.

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

Something of small importance

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;