Quiz Mania

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Quiz Mania

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A quiz is a kind of game or mind sport. You can answer a quiz individually or as a team. A quiz consists of a group of questions, which test your knowledge on a certain subject. Competition quizzes are usually scored in points. The better your knowledge is on the topic of the quiz, the more points you win. If there is a group of people answering the quiz, the person or team with the highest score wins.

Where did the word ‘quiz’ come from? No one really knows, but there is a story that says a man called Richard Daly invented it. Richard Daly owned a theater in Dublin, Ireland. The story says that one day in 1791 Richard Daly made a bet that he could introduce a new word into the English language in 24 hours. Glossary

bet: (v.) to risk something valuable based on the probability of wining something

Daly paid a group of children to go around Dublin and write the word ‘quiz, which was a nonsense word, on walls everywhere.

Within 24 hours people were using the word all the time. As they didn’t know what it meant, they thought it was some kind of test.

And that is what it has been understood to mean ever since! A quiz is a series of questions meant to test your knowledge!

Nowadays you can buy books of quizzes, find quizzes in magazines, do quizzes on your computer, or be given quizzes to do at school.

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Many quizzes test your knowledge of history. These quizzes give clues and ask questions like this:

He was a priest and is called the Father of the Nation. He took the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and gave the first ‘cry of independence,’ which led to the War of Independence. Who was he?

The person doing the quiz is given a variety of different answers. The test comes in seeing if they can circle the right one.

1. Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon 2. Andres Quintana Roo 3. Vicente Guerrero 4. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Do you know the right answer?

QUIZ

ABOUT SCIENCE

Glossary

lead: (n.) tip

There are quizzes for all interests. Quizzes on subjects like general science are very popular. These are typical questions found in that type of quiz.

1. A rock falls to Earth from space.

What’s it called?

2. Which is the brightest star in the night sky?

3. What’s the name of the mineral that forms the lead in a pencil?

You can find a lot of personality quizzes on the internet. These normally give a series of questions with multiple choice answers. None of the answers is really right or wrong, so the results should not be taken too seriously. They are just fun to do!

These quizzes have questions like these:

1. What’s your favorite color?

• Red • Yellow • Blue • Black

2. Which season do you like best?

• Spring • Summer • Fall • Winter 3. How do you feel at parties?

• Happy • Excited • Shy

• Awkward

Glossary

awkward: (adj.) not having much skill Difficult to use or handle

QUIZ

ME BABY!

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If you say that your favorite color is red, the quiz is suggesting that you get mad quickly. Yellow means you are a happy person. Blue means you’re a calm person and black suggests you’re usually depressed!

Can you guess what the quiz is suggesting the best answers are in the other two questions in the personality quiz?

There are quizzes about all the topics you could possibly think of. A good type of topic for testing your knowledge of culture would be a special culture quiz. For example, we all know that a major festivity in the United States is Thanksgiving, but how much do you really know about Thanksgiving? Look for a quiz on Thanksgiving and find out.

1. What are the Americans giving thanks for? 2. When is Thanksgiving? 3. Which day does it fall on? 4. What is the main dish at the Thanksgiving feast? 5. Who or what does the Glossary

President pardon at pardon: (n.) excuse

Thanksgiving? or forgiveness for a fault, offense, or discourtesy

Now check your answers.

QUIZWHIZ

A turkey. Turkey. The fourth Thursday of November, In November. Their first harvest in the New World in 1621.

5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

Nearly everybody loves doing quizzes. They test your brain and they make you feel good about yourself. That’s what quiz mania is all about. Try it yourself and have fun!

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