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Fun Stuff => Competitions & Quizzes => Topic started by: Dare on August 07, 2009, 11:49:37 PM
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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 below
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.
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Good quiz. I got 1 wrong (I thought sailing because nobody ever seems to know the PY adjustments until several hours after the race, but that's only because they don't use fancy timing systems at the local lake). On 2 I was completely clueless and for some reason thought "dweeb" was part of Standard English, thus getting 6 wrong.
Can anyone beat my 6/9?
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Not a chance from this old timer Ali, all I could manage was 3/9, but I take comfort from getting the liquor question right; got to get the important things correct. :tease:
Great quiz Dare. :good:
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SIGH! Only 4/9 here. :-[
Lonny
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4/9 I wouldn't have had a clue about the pear schnapps except we used to sell it, and I asked someone how they did it.
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4/9 here too. Thick as cold soup!! :DntKnw: