Feeling sharp today? . . . Try this!
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.
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