Quiz vs. Questionnaire — What's the Difference?

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.

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.

A test of knowledge, especially as a competition between individuals or teams as a form of entertainment

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.

A practical joke or hoax

A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey

An odd or eccentric person

To survey using questionnaires

Ask (someone) questions

Same as Questionary.

Look curiously or intently at (someone) through or as if through an eyeglass

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.

Make fun of

A form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information

To question (someone), especially closely or repeatedly

To test the knowledge of by posing questions

(Archaic) To poke fun at; mock.

A questioning or inquiry.

A short oral or written test.

(Archaic) A practical joke.

(dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.

(dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.

A competition in the answering of questions.

(education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

(transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.

(transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.

To play with a quiz. en

A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.

One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.

An odd or absurd fellow.

An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.

To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

An examination consisting of a few short questions

Examine someone's knowledge of something;