quiz show
noun
: an entertainment program (as on radio or television) in which contestants answer questions
called also quiz program
Examples of quiz show in a Sentence
a popular TV quiz show
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Sheen has not hosted a quiz show before but played Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2026
On the corridor walls of the expansive Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London, are posters of past productions, from the BBC gameshow, Richard Osman’s House of Games, to another popular British quiz show, Eggheads.
—Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Indie favorite Snail Mail made it onto the famed quiz show in a slightly different way, when a contestant who looks a whole lot like singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan popped up on this week’s Jeopardy!
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
That lifelong commitment to knowledge helped make Whitaker a dominant player, who has also parlayed his skills into a job writing questions for the British quiz show University Challenge.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2026
On the corridor walls of the expansive Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London, are posters of past productions, from the BBC gameshow, Richard Osman’s House of Games, to another popular British quiz show, Eggheads.
—Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Indie favorite Snail Mail made it onto the famed quiz show in a slightly different way, when a contestant who looks a whole lot like singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan popped up on this week’s Jeopardy!
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
That lifelong commitment to knowledge helped make Whitaker a dominant player, who has also parlayed his skills into a job writing questions for the British quiz show University Challenge.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
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“Quiz show.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quiz%20show. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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