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Friday, January 08, 2010

Nine questions

A quiz for people who think they know everything! (maybe from a North American perspective?)
These are not trick questions.
They are straight questions with straight answers
1. Name  the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants
know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What  famous North American landmark
is constantly  moving backward?
3. Of all  vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing  seasons.  All other vegetables must be replanted every year.  What are the only  two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit  has its seeds on the outside?
5. In  many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy,  with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three  words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words.  Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form
except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things  that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
Answers To  Quiz:
1.  The one sport in which neither the  spectators nor the participants know the  score or the leader until the contest  ends
Boxing

2. North American  landmark constantly moving backward  .
Niagara Falls
(The rim is  worn down about two and a half feet each year  because of the millions of gallons of water that  rush over it every minute.)
3. Only two  vegetables that can live to produce on their  own for several growing seasons  .
...Asparagus and rhubarb.
4.  The fruit with its seeds on the outside ..  .
Strawberry.
5. How did the  pear get inside the brandy bottle?
It grew  inside the bottle.
(The bottles are placed  over pear buds when they are small, and are  wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left  in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they  are snipped off at the stems.)
6.  Three English words beginning with  dw
Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
7.  Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar  .
Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. The only  vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh
Lettuce.
9.  Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning  with 'S'
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
stockings, stilts.

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