Topic: A Quiz for People
Winx's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:05 PM
CAN YOU GUESS HALF OF THEM?

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 rushes 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, 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.










longhairbiker's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:08 PM
Now my brain hurts.

andreajayne's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:14 PM
i got a few of them, some really made me think though!

Winx's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:16 PM
Edited by Winx on Sat 05/17/08 08:17 PM

i got a few of them, some really made me think though!


Then you got more right than I did. laugh flowerforyou


Winx's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:17 PM

Now my brain hurts.


Oops. Shouldn't have done that to ya on a Saturday night.laugh flowerforyou

TxsGal3333's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:20 PM
Good one bigsmile

iatomcat's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:20 PM
I got 6 right.
Is dweeb a word??laugh

elwoodsully's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:21 PM
YIPPEE !!! I got ONE right... #4.. Love them strawberries..

elwoodsully's photo
Sat 05/17/08 08:22 PM
Edited by elwoodsully on Sat 05/17/08 08:22 PM

I got 6 right.
Is dweeb a word??laugh


Hey, that's extra credit..

What about Dweezil?