Quiz

A quiz (English ) is a quiz or trivia game, in the course of brain teasers and trivia questions must be answered correctly as possible. Especially in radio and television quiz shows to enjoy great popularity. A special form is the pub quiz, in which guests compete in a restaurant table teams against each other.

Etymology

There is a rumored since 1836 anecdote, the truth of which, however, is very controversial, because there is earlier evidence of the word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary to the origin of the word. One indication of the doubts about the authenticity of the anecdote is that the various sources of the alleged author use different first names: John, Richard, James.

An Irish theater director named Daly had therefore in 1791 completed a bet that he would be able in one day to introduce a new word into the English language. He then began to write anywhere in Dublin on walls the word " quiz " or to be written. It could not do something with it, but everyone was talking about the word. The thing was just a quiz, a puzzle, and it is then passed into general usage. The bet had Daly thus obtained naturally.

Another theory says that the word " quiz " comes from the English word question (English issue ). Question was abbreviated to " ques " and which later became " quis " and ultimately " quiz ".

According to a third etymology of the English verb to quiz walked ( question ) the spelling quies ahead, probably from the Latin Qui it? " Who are you? " Is borrowed.

Quiz as competition / sport

While the profit Quiz in the media and board games are virtually always a luck component is installed, such as using special fields that allow additional profits, setting questions, jokers and multiple-choice, there have always been attempts Quiz uncut purely by merit principle to play. In the Anglo -Saxon world was created in the 50s on the radio quiz Brain of Britain, 1970, the television quiz show Mastermind for single player, next plays at Universitätsquizzen since the 50s, the " Bowl " format for four teams a major role, in which with in a very long and serious questions can click in buzzer. This is not transmitted in the U.S. by the major networks, the former association "College Bowl" could not stand against the new relevant academic associations of the National Academic Quiz Tournament ( NAQT ) and the Academic Competition Federation (ACF ) and gave 2008, it but despite such upheavals are a great tradition. In the UK there is the resultant in the 60 US-style University Challenge, which will be played as Bowl, which is rare for the Wettkampfquizzen, is transmitted by the BBC on television.

In some European countries there are outside the university leagues, where teams will play without buzzer, ie not in the Bowl format against each other, so some are only available in limited geographical areas, such as Belgium, even in England, there is no overall English league but local leagues, from which the resulting 1990 " Quiz League of London " which is by far the most prestigious.

The simple idea of organizing national championships in individual came comparatively late, only in the 90s in the UK (then BQA, today BQC, British Quizzing Championship ), those championships came after this model in Scandinavia as in Denmark or Norway and Belgium. In India there is the " Mahaquizzer " a similar event a championship, 2011, a North American championship with stars such as Ken Jennings is the first time played. In the 21st century the World Association IQA was founded and ( only played as a single ) the number of participants of the decentralized discharged annually Quiz World Cup rocketed from about 30 at a single venue in 2003 to 1493 in 32 countries in 2011. The second annual Major tournament is played only in English in a central place European Championship. Here come the world's best quiz player, some professionals such as Kevin Ashman and Pat Gibson against each other. There are unlike the World Cup and team competitions for couples and teams of four (eg national ) but never with more than four players.

The focus of the Wettkampfquizzens located in Northern Europe, especially in the UK and Belgium, to a lesser extent in the Baltic region (Scandinavia, Baltic States ) Outside Europe it is common in English speaking / Commonwealth.

Other events are organized by the National Quizzing.co.uk Quiz Super League, in Lithuania there is the Protmušis Competition, in Canada the Reach for the Top.

One of the best German " Sports Quiz Zern " include Holger forest Berger, Sebastian Jacoby, Manuel Hobiger and Sebastian Klussmann. Since 2011 there are for players to play the quiz as a sport, the Germans Quiz Club eV The German Quiz Club is aimed, inter alia, annually the official Quiz World Cup in Germany, and a German championship.

Quiz as a party game

Many board games are planned as a quiz. The quiz as a board game first became popular in the late 1980s, when Trivial Pursuit came on the market. In its wake came then numerous offshoots, whose gameplay is roughly resembled (usually a loop with the tasks to be performed or to cresting success ladder with increasing question difficulty level ). Among them were known The big quiz of Noris, Anno Domini Abacus, game of knowledge ( MB ), which ran SAT.1 Football Quiz Super Q and quizzes for children and adults from all walks of life. With the success of the game shows on television and the mid-1990s, some deadened quiz game market came back again in motion. To many TV formats board game versions were sold, some with support of electronic media (DVD). As part of the PISA debate intensified knowledge and quizzes for children and youth now come back to the market, such as The Quiz of the 20th century by Haren Bergverlag. Another example is the detailed and full-featured game Bezzerwizzer by Mattel with 5000 questions from the year 2007.

The match stimulus in quizzes is at the table and falls with the number of questions. A minimum of 1500-2000 different question cards is essential to give rise to the duration of boredom. A balanced game round with the same in about knowledge also contributes to the success of a domestic quiz game round.

Many trivia games can also be played without a template and without any accessories from the game retailer. These include I spy with my little eye, Hangman or persons rates. Sometimes no accessories are required, often meet paper and pen, or not even that is necessary.

Without any extra tools

The guessing game I spy with my little eye takes place in spoken dialogue. The game ends are usually in the same place and have eye contact. The parties should have approximately the same vision and the same view horizon. So the game is going well, the players must be able to assess what is seen for the other. The person who begins looking into the visible area of an object and describes it with an adjective (variant 1 ), for example. "I spy with my little eye, and that is yellow " A second variant can be play with people who know how words are spelled. Then the first letter of the word is called, with which the searched object is called. In both variants, the other players look around, trying to discover what is meant and suggest what object could be. The dialogue goes as long proceed until was guessed correctly or until no longer see the object for other reasons ( for example, if the train leaves, in which the game ends sit ). Then the person 's turn, who has guessed correctly.

Quiz as a computer game

Well-known computer games are, for example, You Do not Know Jack and Buzz!. Further, there are implementations of board games such as Trivial Pursuit and quiz shows like Millionaire. Even in the 1980s there was such computer games, but mostly in English. In the course of the emergence of interactive websites and online quizzes that can be played on most free arisen. Some of these games also offer the possibility of virtually against friends and other players to compete.

Quiz as iOS apps

With the iPhone / iPod / iPad and quiz applications emerged. One of the first major game was the wise, that was written by the Trivial Pursuit authors Willi Andresen. One of the Millionaire? Question authors Christian Matzerath brought with EQ - The Evil Quiz the "evil brother of WWM? " in the AppStore and the original show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? has its own app. Various books and games publishers like Ravensburger ( Think Quiz ) or moses.verlag (Pocket Quiz series) offer apps for quiz friends. The biggest questions, the app Triviado quiz with more than 150,000 questions. Status 2012 are in the AppStore hundreds quiz apps to download.

Quizzes and quiz master on TV

Are popular in many countries, quiz shows, which will be moderated by a quiz master. Answer the candidate's provided by the quizmaster questions correctly, he can win in kind or cash prizes. The most successful quiz show on German television is Millionaire.