Quiz meaning : An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing. A competition in the answering of questions. A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course. To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly. To question closely, to interrogate. To instruct by means of a quiz. To play with a quiz.