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CailinDeas | 19:21 Sun 16th Feb 2014 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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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 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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Hmmm. I got 6.3
2. Niagara falls
4, strawberry
5 there are videos on you tube about how.
Why did you give the answers. That spoiled it!
Good questions.

Think there are alot more thasn 3 words beginning with DW though.
9 sticking plasters?
Thought you wanted answers, shouldn't have bothered....
6.4 dwile
Q9 did say 6 or more…
What game is played worldwide with an odd total of players throughout?
Piggy in the middle?

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