2007-02-15 07:12:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
check out the wikipedia article on quiz. Check out, as well, a dictionary such as websters, which should give you a very abbreviated etymology of the word.
anyway, here is the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/quiz
2007-02-15 07:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by SAMUEL ELI 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
EVERYONE SO FAR IS WRONG WRONG WRONG...
The word Quiz is actually trades in its origins to an irishman in the late 19th century.
He was drinking with his friends and they eventually had a bet that the man couldn't make a new word.
The man accepted the bet and for the next 6 months went about writting QUIZ on everything...
people obviously reading this had absolutely no idea what it was and started guessing what the word ment.
Given the responce of the people, the man later went on to say that Quiz ment asking questions...
that is the 100% truth on the subject, it is nothing to do with foreign languages which bear a resemblance...
2007-02-16 04:07:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
quiz
1847, quies, perhaps from L. qui es? "who are you?," first question in oral exams in L. in old-time grammar schools. Spelling quiz first recorded 1886, though it was in use as a noun from 1867, perhaps from apparently unrelated slang word quiz meaning "odd person" (1782, source of quizzical). The anecdote that credits this word to a bet by the Dublin theater-manager Daly that he could coin a word is regarded by authorities as "doubtful" and the first record of it appears to be in 1836 (in Smart's "Walker Remodelled";
2007-02-15 15:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
dictionary.com corroborates the information on wikipedia that the word might have it's orgin from 1775–85 and meaning “odd person”; but goes on to say its origins are uncertain.
2007-02-15 15:38:33 · answer #4 · answered by perplexed 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is from the Latin "quis" which means "who". You can see how why a quiz is such
2007-02-17 09:50:41 · answer #5 · answered by Professor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This guy mike sunders is right. I studied it in the history of English language.
2007-02-18 05:56:08 · answer #6 · answered by cmilja m 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
QU = QUESTION?
IZ = SHOWBIZ?
NOT SURE
2007-02-17 15:28:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dunno ....its a quiz nobody will b able to answer
2007-02-15 15:15:49 · answer #8 · answered by mako 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋