quizzer
- noun
- /ˈkwɪzər/
- After the final round, the quizzer announced the winners and handed out prizes to the top scorers.
Examples
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As a former Bible quizzer—at one time, I could have recited the entire Gospel of Luke (and a few others) and identified every time the word "water," "body," etc. appeared in the text, among other things that seem pretty bizarre now—this sounds like amateur hour.
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The quizzer prepared a challenging set of questions to test the students' knowledge on the subject.
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As the quizzer read the questions aloud, the contestants eagerly scribbled their answers.
Synonyms
A person who gives tests to judge people's ability
A person who asks for information, often in a public meeting
A person who gives a test to check someone's skills or knowledge
A person who asks questions and runs a quiz show on radio or television
A person who gives and scores tests about thinking and emotions
A person who asks people for answers and runs a quiz show on radio or TV
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word quizzer comes from the short word quiz, which now means a 'short test', and the ending -er simply makes it 'someone who gives a quiz'. One popular story says quiz began as a playful invented word in Dublin and later came to mean a question or test, so a quizzer is the person who asks the questions.