Quizified

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Converted into a question-and-answer quiz format, often to make dry material more engaging for the reader
2. Presented in the form of a quiz, with questions that test knowledge instead of plain text
3. Having been reshaped as a set of questions meant to test or entertain the person answering them

Etymology: "Quiz" is the older part of this word, and its origin is murky. It first appeared in the late 1780s, and a popular story says Dublin theatre manager James Daly bet that he could make up a meaningless word and get the city talking about it within a day. He supposedly chalked "quiz" on walls across Dublin. The story is probably a legend, and no reliable record confirms it. The sense of the noun, an odd or eccentric person, was soon followed by the verb meaning to question someone closely. "Quizified" is built from "quiz" plus "-ify," a suffix that came into English through Old French from the Latin "-ificare," meaning "to make." Adding "-ed" turns it into a participle or adjective: "made into a quiz," or "tested or turned into a quiz." Its exact first date of use is uncertain.