Sentence examples for at quizzes from inspiring English sources

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In our household, some of us are great at quizzes, some of us not.

As Pointless fans will attest, however, celebrities are useless at quizzes – none of the luminaries get the Reg Varney question, an old pub quiz chestnut.

I am terrible at quizzes, and while University Challenge's producer this week suggested that it now gives more clues in its questions than in the early days, to me it is just as fiendishly difficult as ever.

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Michael Dann, a broadcast consultant and the CBS executive who notified Mr. Carlin that his show was canceled in 1958, called Mr. Carlin a genius at quiz shows.

Making things hardest still, the clues themselves are, famously, phrased as answers, to which contestants must supply an appropriate question.Yet IBM has always had bigger plans for its artificial know-it-all than beating humans at quiz shows.

And they all show that people involved in such discussions quickly become adept at quizzing experts, mastering a brief, asking questions and unmasking political assumptions masquerading as scientific conclusions.

We might look at quiz show contestants and think 'I could do that.' But how many people truly believe that they have it in them to start a successful business?

In comparing the progression of learning for nonmajors and majors, we found that the majors show steady improvement in their performance from pretest to quiz to exam to postassessment, whereas nonmajors improve their performance at quiz time (immediately after completing an activity on the topic) but then fail to continue improving on exams or the posttest.

Incidentally, the show comes on the heels of Fox yanking Ryan Seacrest's at-home quiz show "Knock Knock Live" after two episodes last July.

They are great at pub quizzes.

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