Quiz vs. Questionnaire — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Quiz and Questionnaire
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Definitions
Quiz
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.
Questionnaire
A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions (or other types of prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents. The questionnaire was invented by the Statistical Society of London in 1838.Although questionnaires are often designed for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case.
Quiz
A test of knowledge, especially as a competition between individuals or teams as a form of entertainment
A quiz show
A pub quiz
A sports quiz
Questionnaire
A form containing a set of questions, especially one addressed to a statistically significant number of subjects as a way of gathering information for a survey.
Quiz
A practical joke or hoax
I am impatient to know if the whole be not one grand quiz
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Questionnaire
A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey
Carry out a questionnaire
Fill out a questionnaire
Quiz
An odd or eccentric person
She means to marry that quiz for the sake of his thousands
Questionnaire
To survey using questionnaires
Quiz
Ask (someone) questions
Four men have been quizzed about the murder
Questionnaire
Same as Questionary.
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Quiz
Look curiously or intently at (someone) through or as if through an eyeglass
Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight
Questionnaire
A list of questions, usually on a printed form, to be answered by an individual. The forms often have blank spaces in which the answers can be written. Sets of such forms are distributed to groups and the answers used for various purposes, such as to obtain statistical information for social science, political, or marketing research, or to obtain information about a patient for the use of medical practitioners.
Quiz
Make fun of
Is it possible he has heard of my foible and is quizzing me?
Questionnaire
A form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information
Quiz
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).
Quiz
To test the knowledge of by posing questions
Quizzed the class on state capitals.
Quiz
(Archaic) To poke fun at; mock.
Quiz
A questioning or inquiry.
Quiz
A short oral or written test.
Quiz
(Archaic) A practical joke.
Quiz
(dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
Quiz
(dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
Quiz
A competition in the answering of questions.
We came second in the pub quiz.
Quiz
(education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
Quiz
To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
Quiz
To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
Quiz
(transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
Quiz
(transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
Quiz
To play with a quiz. en
Quiz
A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
Quiz
One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.
Quiz
An odd or absurd fellow.
Quiz
An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.
Quiz
To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.
Quiz
To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
Quiz
An examination consisting of a few short questions
Quiz
Examine someone's knowledge of something;
The teacher tests us every week
We got quizzed on French irregular verbs