joke vs quiz

joke

verb
  • To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. 

  • To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. 

noun
  • An amusing story. 

  • The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one 

  • A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham. 

  • Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected. 

  • Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. 

quiz

verb
  • To question (someone) closely, to interrogate. 

  • To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz. 

noun
  • A competition in the answering of questions. 

  • A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course. 

How often have the words joke and quiz occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )