noun

• (dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
  "I've always heard he was a quiz, says another, or a quoz, or some such word ; but I did not know he was such a book-worm."
• (dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
• (education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
  "For many it is hard to envision a scenario where a student completes an online quiz (or test) without using their smartphone, tablet, or other device to look up the answers, or ‘share’ those answers with other students."

verb

• (transitive, archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
  "he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room—"
• (transitive, archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
• (transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
  "He quizzed the suspect for around half an hour."
• (transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.