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[kafenes]

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 or cooked, in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."


I will post the answers tomorrow night.

[IcyNoAngel]

Answer for 5:

The bottle is fixed around the fruit when it is small (in the tree), and so the fruit grows in the bottle. When it is big enough (the fruit I mean), you get the bottle from the tree with the fruit inside and add liquor. So that's it. Simple isn't it?

[murf62]

1. Boxing
4. Strawberries
6. dwell, dwelling, dwarf
7. comma, colon, semi-colon, full stop, exclamation mark, question mark, inverted commas
8. Lettuce
9. shoe, sock, slipper, sandal, stilettos, skis, skates

[IcyNoAngel]

3. http://www.agroforestry.net/pubs/perennial_vegetables.html

[webbo]

Any chance of you giving us the answers Kafene mou? You would be putting me out of my misery!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers

Bubbles x

[kafenes]

Any chance of you giving us the answers Kafene mou? You would be putting me out of my misery!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers

Bubbles x

Sorry Bubbles, just got home from work. So here are the answers and murf62 did preety well.

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 or cooked, 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.

[webbo]

Any chance of you giving us the answers Kafene mou? You would be putting me out of my misery!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers

Bubbles x

Sorry Bubbles, just got home from work. So here are the answers and murf62 did preety well.

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 or cooked, 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.

Cheers, it was number 2 that was bugging me! Did not know that at all: learn something new every day eh?
How do they keep the bottle sterile for the pear brandy??!?!?!

Bubbles x