In school we'd do quizzes that were handed out on pieces of paper, and we'd answer them right there on the same sheet. I remember it was connected to some old Soviet word. What's the proper name for that kind of quiz?
Are you talking about "quizzes" or something completely different? Most likely, those were **olympiads** - that's what they called written assignments on sheets of paper, when you'd sit down and solve problems, then turn them in. The word really is old, but it's still used today, especially in schools. You might be remembering a specific olympiad in some subject where they'd hand out problem sheets.
Or maybe it was just worksheets in class, or even a full assessment of knowledge? Because olympiads are usually more serious assignments, often with some kind of selection process, rather than just handed out during a lesson.
If you're talking about everyday school worksheets with questions, it could have been a regular **test** or just a **written quiz**. But if you actually remember a Soviet word for it and it was somehow more formal than a regular knowledge check, it might be an **olympiad** - that word does have Greek roots, but in the USSR it was actively used for written competitions.
There's also the option of **quiz** itself, just with that name. In Soviet times quizzes really were handed out on paper; it was a form of entertaining knowledge assessment. What exactly was the level of seriousness - just entertainment during a break or a full-fledged competition?
I think it was a **quiz form** or just a **quiz on a form** - in the '90s and 2000s, schools often called those sheets with questions that teachers handed out during class or between lessons exactly that. The difference from olympiads was that this was actually a quiz - an entertainment format, not a serious competition for selection, so the requirements were simpler. Those forms were often posted on bulletin boards or handed out to classes during extracurricular activities.
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