викторина

First appeared in the Russian magazine Ogoniok in 1928. Mikhail Koltsov, the magazine's founder, applied the term to a selection of puzzles in the magazine. He had named the feature after a fellow employee who prepared the feature, Виктор Микулин (Viktor Mikulin). Later, people began to associate his puzzle with the Latin term victor (“winner”).

• IPA^(key): [vʲɪktɐˈrʲinə]

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виктори́на • (viktorína) f inan (genitive виктори́ны, nominative plural виктори́ны, genitive plural виктори́н)

1. quiz (a test of knowledge)