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Quiz vs Questionary - What's the difference?

quiz | questionary |

As nouns the difference between quiz and questionary

is that quiz is quiz, trivia while questionary is a questionnaire.

As an adjective questionary is

inquiring; asking questions; testing.

quiz

English

(wikipedia quiz)

Noun

(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.

    • Derived terms

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

    Verb

    (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.

    • questionary

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (qualifier)

    Noun

    (questionaries)
  • A questionnaire.
  • (archaic) One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.

    • Synonyms

    * questionnaire

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inquiring; asking questions; testing.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Questionary epistles.