pop quiz

Joshua didn’t expect an “L.A. accent” pop quiz when he signed on to Zoom for an interview from Seoul.

As the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg began her Sunday Morning programme, she gave her Conservative and Labour guests a quick pop quiz to see if they could name their respective parties' election pledges.

Our high-school nightmares are graffitied with formulas and calculus and quadratic equations, panicked pop quizzes corrected with a harsh red pen.

Next to him, 67-year-old teacher and musician Alan Akaka swivels his desk chair from his computer screen to face Cortez with a pop quiz: “Have you been practicing with the music?”

As Medellín Legorreta and his students wait, in vain, for a Vampyrum to snag in a mist net tonight, he peppers his students with pop quizzes and questions about their research plan.