quiz show

noun

: an entertainment program (as on radio or television) in which contestants answer questions

called also quiz program

Example Sentences

a popular TV quiz show

Recent Examples on the Web Some of the quiz show's greatest players are back! —

Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022 Still, ratings have been strong amid a year of Jennings and Bialik back-and-forth — in no small part thanks to the show's unusual streak of super-champions — suggesting that after the most tumultuous period in its history, America's favorite quiz show may have finally weathered the storm. —

Brendan Morrow, The Week, 30 July 2022 Amy Schneider is $1.3 million richer after closing out the second-longest winning streak in the quiz show's history. —

Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022 More recently, TikTok launched a several-day quiz show which featured multiple rounds of trivia and a live host with cash prizes. —

Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023 Barbra Streisand’s The Prince of Tides (1991), as the suicidal sister of Nick Nolte’s character; and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999), as the wife of a philandering quiz show host (Philip Baker Hall). —

Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2023 Frost has been a quiz show fan since childhood. —

Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2022 The customer success operations manager and Ocean City, New Jersey, resident first appeared on the quiz show in September. —

Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022 Cheung will not face the quiz show’s latest super champion, Cris Pannullo, who lost Tuesday night after 21 straight victories. —

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