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Quiz vs Trivial - What's the difference?

quiz | trivial |

As nouns the difference between quiz and trivial

is that quiz is quiz, trivia while trivial is (obsolete) any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

As an adjective trivial is

ignorable; of little significance or value.

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.

    • trivial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ignorable; of little significance or value.
  • * 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
    • "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones , who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial , twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
  • Commonplace, ordinary.
  • * De Quincey
    • As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial , and incapable of labour.
  • Concerned with or involving trivia.
  • (biology) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  • (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
  • (mathematics) Self-evident.
  • Pertaining to the trivium.
  • (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

    • Synonyms

    * (of little significance) ignorable, negligible, trifling

    Antonyms

    * nontrivial * important * significant * radical * fundamental

    Derived terms

    * trivia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
    • (Skelton)
    (Wood)
    (Webster 1913) ----