quiz

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To question (someone), especially closely or repeatedly.
• transitive verb To test the knowledge of by posing questions: synonym: ask.
• transitive verb Chiefly British To poke fun at; mock.
• noun A questioning or inquiry.
• noun A short oral or written test.
• noun A practical joke.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To puzzle; banter; make sport of by means of puzzling questions, hints, and the like; chaff.
• To look at through or as through a quizzing-glass; peer at; scrutinize suspiciously.
• In medicine, to examine (a student) orally or informally, as in a quiz-or question-class.
• To practise bantering or chaffing; be addicted to teasing.
• In medicine, to attend oral or informal examinations, as in a quiz-class.
• noun A puzzling question; something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
• noun One who quizzes.
• noun One who or that which is obnoxious to ridicule or quizzing; a queer or ridiculous person or thing.
• noun An oral questioning of a student or class by a teacher, conducted with the object of communicating instruction and preparing for some examination: as, the surgery quiz; the practice quiz. [Colloq.]
• noun A collection of notes made by a student from a professor's lectures, especially when printed for the use of other students. [Colloq.]
• noun A monocular eye-glass, with or without a handle; a quizzing-glass.
• noun A toy, formerly popular, consisting of a small cylinder or wheel grooved to receive a string, by which the wheel is made to wind and unwind itself. Also called bandalore.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb U.S. To conduct a quiz. See quiz, n., 4.
• noun A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
• noun One who quizzes others.
• noun An odd or absurd fellow.
• noun Cant, U.S. An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.
• transitive verb To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
• transitive verb To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
• transitive verb U.S. To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.
• transitive verb a small eyeglass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
• noun One who or that which quizzes.
• noun One who or that which is obnoxious to ridicule or quizzing; a queer or ridiculous person or thing.
• noun A competition in the answering of questions.
• noun A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
• verb transitive, archaic To hoax.
• verb transitive To question closely, to interrogate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb examine someone's knowledge of something
• noun an examination consisting of a few short questions