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 land-
mark constantly
moving
backward:
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, quota- tion 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. |
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