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Entertainment > Humor > Quiz 4/17/09
 

Quiz 4/17/09

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 a re 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..'

 
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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 a
t 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 more things you can wear on
your feet beginning with 'S'.
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers,
skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

 
PLEASE DO YOUR
PART.....
Today is National Mental Health Day. You can do your part by remembering to
send an e-mail to at least one unstable person.. or blog it..and reach many!

 
Well, my job's done!


posted on Apr 17, 2009 1:16 PM ()

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