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Quizzing vs. Quest — What's the Difference?

Quizzing vs. Quest — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Quizzing and Quest

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Quizzing

To question (someone), especially closely or repeatedly
"His searching questions as he quizzed me on my work made me tongue-tied at first" (Susan Sellers).

Quest

A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. The word serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical.

Quizzing

To test the knowledge of by posing questions
Quizzed the class on state capitals.

Quest

The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.

Quizzing

(Archaic) To poke fun at; mock.
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Quest

An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat
The quest for the Holy Grail.

Quizzing

A questioning or inquiry.

Quest

An inquest.

Quizzing

A short oral or written test.

Quest

A jury appointed to take part in an inquest.

Quizzing

(Archaic) A practical joke.

Quest

To search for something
Quested for knowledge.

Quizzing

Present participle of quiz

Quest

To go on a quest.

Quizzing

The act by which somebody is quizzed, or teased; banter, raillery.

Quest

To search for game or bay when sighting game, as a hound.

Quizzing

The asking of questions; interrogation.

Quest

A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

Quest

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
To rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

Quest

(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.

Quest

(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.

Quest

(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.

Quest

(education) A short test.

Quest

(intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.

Quest

(transitive) To search for something; to seek.

Quest

To locate and attach to a host animal.

Quest

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
Upon an hard adventure yet in quest.
Cease your quest of love.
There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.

Quest

Request; desire; solicitation.
Gad not abroad at every quest and callOf an untrained hope or passion.

Quest

Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.

Quest

Inquest; jury of inquest.
What lawful quest have given their verdict ?

Quest

To search for; to examine.

Quest

To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.

Quest

A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;
The pursuit of love
Life is more than the pursuance of fame
A quest for wealth

Quest

The act of searching for something;
A quest for diamonds

Quest

Make a search (for);
Things that die with their eyes open and questing
The animal came questing through the forest

Quest

Search the trail of (game);
The dog went off and quested

Quest

Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

Quest

Seek alms, as for religious purposes

Quest

Express the need or desire for; ask for;
She requested an extra bed in her room
She called for room service

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