{"id":412,"date":"2012-02-20T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=412"},"modified":"2012-02-22T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:39:35","slug":"quiz-belongs-at-the-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Quiz belongs in the pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=411\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-411\" title=\"pint of best\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pint-of-best-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pint-of-best-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pint-of-best.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>According to one popular story, the word <em>quiz<\/em> owes its existence to a Dublin theatre impresario named Daly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Daly is said to have had posters bearing the letters Q, U, I and Z plastered about Dublin one night in order to win a bet that he could introduce a new word into the English language in just 24 hours.\u00a0 Unfortunately, no one has ever been able to find any evidence of Mr Daly\u2019s posters.\u00a0 And the Latin phrase <em>Qui es?<\/em> (who are you?) seems a more likely source.<\/p>\n<p>The most common meaning of quiz is <em>\u2018a test of knowledge, especially between individuals or teams, as an entertainment\u2019<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The ever-popular pub quiz is an example.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But over the past few years, journalists seem to have developed an annoying preference for using <em>quiz<\/em> in place of <em>question<\/em>.\u00a0 Consider these recent examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2018\u2026 officials had travelled to Queensland to quiz officials\u2019\u00a0 (Talk about talking to yourselves.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2018Local man quizzed over disappearance\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2018Police quiz break-in suspect\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Does the use of quiz make the writer sound more stylish?\u00a0 Better informed?\u00a0 More erudite?\u00a0 Not in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to one popular story, the word quiz owes its existence to a Dublin theatre impresario named Daly. Mr Daly is said to have had posters bearing the letters Q, U, I and Z plastered about Dublin one night in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}