Bother
Quiz
Quiz noun - A person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another.
Usage example: always eager to put everything down, my boyfriend had to be a quiz and make fun of the actors and costumes in our local theater troupe's latest production
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If you rub the lamp, he doesn't even bother with granting you wishes, and instead forces you to participate in a mandatory Pop Quiz testing your knowledge of minor characters in the story so far.
Source: Video Game / Mad Maze - His smarmy quiz-show host accent is pretty good, which makes the fact that Ferguson later moved to the US and hosts a popular American late-night show where he doesn't bother to cover up his natural Scottish accent oddly hilarious.
Source: Fake American / Live-Action TV
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