Quiz vs Debating - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between quiz and debating

is that quiz is quiz, trivia while debating is the act of taking part in a debate.

(wikipedia quiz)

(quizzes)

Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.

One who or that which quizzes.

(dated) An odd or absurd person or thing.

(Smart)

(Thackeray)

* 1803' (published '''1816 ), (Jane Austen), ''(Northanger Abbey) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm Chapter 7]

Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.

A competition in the answering of questions.

We came second in the pub quiz .

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

* quiz kid * quizzer * quizzery * quizzical * quizzify * quizzy

(en-verb)

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

* Thackeray

He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.

(archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

To question closely, to interrogate.

To instruct by means of a quiz.

(wikipedia debating)

(head)

(en noun)

The act of taking part in a debate.

* (William Cobbett)

As to the debatings , the mind of every man in the country was made up, long before, very long indeed before those debatings began