Tuesday, July 13, 2010

There are only nine questions

This is a quiz for people who know
everything!
I found out in a hurry that I didn';t.

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 mark, 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.