The first attested use of the word "quiz" is from 1781 and means - TopicsExpress



          

The first attested use of the word "quiz" is from 1781 and means an odd person. This sense survives today in the word "quizzical". It was also used in the term quizzing glass, a common accoutrement of British Regency dandies. It later acquired a meaning of to make fun of, or to mock. How it acquired its current meaning of a test is unknown, but that sense did not appear until 1867 and then it was in the United States. - wiki
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