A quiz is a form of game or mind sport, in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly is a foundation established by amateur and professional astronomers under the guidance of scientists, professors, lecturers, teachers and research scholars from various prestigious collages

This presumably occurred because quiz was associated with question, inquisitive, or perhaps the English dialect verb quiset, "to question" (probably itself short for obsolete inquisite, "to investigate"). From this new area of meaning came the noun and verb senses all too familiar to students.