Quiz for people who know everything

[Wackerdan]

Quiz for people who know everything

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 insi de 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 m ore things you can wear on your feet beginning with "S" Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

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Well, my job's done!

LIFE IS A JOURNEY.

ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW AND ENJOY THE BREEZE

[Michael]

Nice teasers. Maybe some controversial ones (embedded hyperlinks not working just now):

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_fishing

2. What about the erosion of beaches (and the Mexican border)?

3. http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/p...1338556990.html

6. Don't forget the variants: http://www.m-w.com/browse/dw

7. http://www.antimoon.com/forum/2004/4918.htm

8. http://www.fairprice.com.sg/ProductDetails...D=0000000423575

9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Foot (to revert to the topic of the site)

Thanks for the workout.

[Eydawn]

Wow, Michael! You really *do* know everything!!!

Holy crud!

Wendy

CO EMT-B

[Michael]

Only if "everything" = how to google (which, alas, it does not. )

[unknown]

I learn something new every time I visit here! :wink:

[Richard B the EMT]

Just how many beaches, with the possible recognition of Coney Island, Santaimonica, or Jones Beaches, are National landmarks, that most people would be expected to know the state of their erosion, unlike Niagara Falls, which is specifically measured? Remember, If the beach in Rockaway erodes another 3,000 feet inland, there goes my house!

[Richard B the EMT]

Oh, one more thing I know that nobody else knows. And why would they?

When I itch, only I know where to scratch!

[unknown]

Oh, one more thing I know that nobody else knows. And why would they?

When I itch, only I know where to scratch!

Now thats funny!

LOL and I rest assured we probably don't want/need to know!