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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to one of your favorite segments【词源考古研究所】...

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I haven't said the English name yet.

Sorry. 

【It means what? 】

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Welcome to the show, 安澜.

Thank you. Hi, everyone.

You're in high spirit today. So I'm assuming we're talking about a fun word today. 

We're talking about I have to say an activity I really enjoy doing. 

So it must be quite boring then.

It’s actually... we’re talking about quizzes.

Quizzes, Q-u-i-z.

Quiz can mean测验测试或这种什么问答.  I like quiz in the sense of  when it’s a fun quiz. I don't particularly like quiz when it's given by teachers.

I remember when I was at school, we used to have lots of pop quizzes. So just these type of quizzes, the teacher would say right, books away. I'm gonna test you.

No preparation. 这种随堂突击测验,  I hated that.

I really, really hate that.

This is why now I'm a teacher, I don't give that.

Actually that's why when I was a teacher, I used to give those all the time.

You are such a horrible human being.

I know.

All right, quiz doesn't sound English. Where does it come from?

There is a famous story which to be honest, I think is a myth, most people think it's a myth. It's believed that it was invented by a theater manager in the 18th century. 

You would be surprised how many words are invented by people working in theaters.

Now he bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours.

That was before social media time and the internet, how could he do that? 

What he did was, he went out according to the story, he went out and hired a group of street children, so children that lived on the streets, homeless kids, okay. To write the word quiz which was a nonsense word.