Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who asks questions of contestants on a quiz show.
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- noun A person who poses questions to
contestants on aquiz show .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game
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Examples
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As most NPR devotees most likely already know, long-time NPR news anchor and "quizmaster" on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Carl Kasell is retiring.
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Imagine the other quizmaster Jezza – Paxman – doing that on University Challenge.
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Katherine Kingsley, who made a big impression in Aspects of Love, lends the contest's co-host a honey blonde vivacity and Steve Pemberton as her colleague has the fake omniscience of the smug quizmaster.
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Teams write their answers down on slips of paper, together with their point value, team name and league number, and turn their slips in to the quizmaster before the end of the song.
Anatomy of a (nearly) singlehanded victory shunn 2010
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The quizmaster reads each question, then plays a four-minute song.
Anatomy of a (nearly) singlehanded victory shunn 2010
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Care to waste a little more time trying to beat our quizmaster?
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As the game gets close to starting, a few people including the bar owner Freddy and our quizmaster Hank not their real names stop by my table to ask me where everyone else is.
Anatomy of a (nearly) singlehanded victory shunn 2010
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At the start of each round, the quizmaster announces the three categories that will be used.
Anatomy of a (nearly) singlehanded victory shunn 2010
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As the game gets close to starting, a few people including the bar owner Freddy and our quizmaster Hank not their real names stop by my table to ask me where everyone else is.
Anatomy of a (nearly) singlehanded victory shunn 2010
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One Tail's Medical and Finance Coordinator, Jeff Kitchen, is also the quizmaster at our regular Wednesday night pub trivia event.
Trivia benefit for the puppies shunn 2010
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