How to Use quiz show in a Sentence

quiz show

noun
  • Sheen has not hosted a quiz show before but played Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Ding's winning streak, which began in March, captured both lawmakers and fans of the long-running quiz show alike.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Colin Jost is in talks to return as host for the second season of the spinoff quiz show, which is due sometime in 2026.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Thats right, the very first episode of the quiz show that still captivates America aired back on March 30, 1964, hosted then by Art Fleming.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Mar. 2026
  • There are quiz shows and dance parties, teen-only gaming spaces, Guinness World Records competitions, and enough stimulation to make some kids forget their parents exist for days at a time.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2026
  • Osman got his start as a journalist and also worked in television as a producer and a writer before serving as a presenter on British quiz show Pointless, as well as a stint on the popular game show Taskmaster.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Indie favorite Snail Mail made it onto the famed quiz show in a slightly different way, when a contestant who looks a whole lot like singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan popped up on this week’s Jeopardy!
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That lifelong commitment to knowledge helped make Whitaker a dominant player, who has also parlayed his skills into a job writing questions for the British quiz show University Challenge.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The label, which is set to launch in the new year, will become the new home for ITV Studios’ Potato team, encompassing Potato and 12 Yard’s portfolio of quiz shows and catalogue.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • McSweeney, a poet and English professor at the University of Notre Dame, won big on Monday night, earning over $17,000 during the first two rounds of the popular quiz show.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Singh also launched the south Asian creator network Hypen8 and hosts the CTV quiz show Battle of the Generations, where contestants from different generations compete in pop culture trivia.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
  • Gelfand joined Apploff Entertainment three years ago and is a co-exec producer on Best Guess Live, which is hosted by Howie Mandel and Hunter March and is the streamer’s first-ever mobile weekday quiz show.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
  • On the corridor walls of the expansive Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London, are posters of past productions, from the BBC gameshow, Richard Osman’s House of Games, to another popular British quiz show, Eggheads.
    — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026

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