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September 22, 2007 at 12:03 pm #619506
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.
(I actually got most of them, lol yea me 😛 )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.’
&nb sp;HAVE A GREAT DAY
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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, 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.
September 22, 2007 at 12:03 pm #492708September 22, 2007 at 12:12 pm #6195071. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
Boxing.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
I dont know…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?
Asparagus… I know cuz its all over here. I dont know the other.
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
Stawberry!!!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? They melt the bottle over the pear. I think I saw/learned that in Venice.
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ‘ dw’ and they are all common words. Name two of them.
Dwarf, dwindle, dwindles, and dwindling! 😀
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.
Banana, Star Fruit, Pomegranite, too, I think.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter ‘S.’
Shoes, Socks, Sandles, Slippers, Skiis, Snobboards, Skates.Awww.. you already posted the answers. I was feeling smart for a second!
September 22, 2007 at 12:17 pm #619508I guess I should have left a bigger space between the questions and answers 😆
I didn’t want to leave them off completely and have a bazillion frustrated people 😈
September 22, 2007 at 12:19 pm #619509Thats alright. I didnt notice them till I was almost done. I can now see that I may have gotten a few wrong… 😆
September 22, 2007 at 12:24 pm #619510That makes two of us 😳
But I see we both were close on most of them 8)September 22, 2007 at 12:52 pm #619511😆 Ski, you did better than I did!!! 😆
September 22, 2007 at 12:57 pm #619512I didn’t get the perennial veggie. Asparagus yes. But Rhubarb ? Silly me. 🙄 I thought that was a fruit. Straw berry rhubarb pie is my fav. 8)
September 22, 2007 at 4:22 pm #619513I disagree on the lettuce thing. I’ve never seen cucumbers sold in any other form than fresh either.
Bananas can be sold dried, and the other fruits you mentioned can be canned, ski (I think).
What about the one food that never expires, doesn’t need to go in the frigde either?
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmSeptember 22, 2007 at 4:24 pm #619514dragonmedley wrote:I disagree on the lettuce thing. I’ve never seen cucumbers sold in any other form than fresh either.
Bananas can be sold dried, and the other fruits you mentioned can be canned, ski (I think).
What about the one food that never expires, doesn’t need to go in the frigde either?
Actually pickles start out as cucumbers.
September 22, 2007 at 6:59 pm #619515Oops. Forgot about those. Ok, the big ones only…
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmSeptember 22, 2007 at 8:17 pm #619516The only food that doesn’t spoil is honey 😀
September 22, 2007 at 11:06 pm #619517I like this kind of topic, it’s fun. I got 4 1/2 of those right. 1/2 because I didn’t know about asparagus (I don’t eat it), but I have rhubarb growing in my back yard. 🙂
As for previous possibilities for # 8: I would imagine “processed” would include being juiced? I have pomegranate juice in my fridge. And you can buy dried star fruit if you’re in the right place.
September 22, 2007 at 11:40 pm #619518wolflodge100 wrote:The only food that doesn’t spoil is honey 😀
Yeah! I would put maple syrup in the same category, but I’m not sure.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmSeptember 23, 2007 at 12:36 am #619519dragonmedley wrote:wolflodge100 wrote:The only food that doesn’t spoil is honey 😀
Yeah! I would put maple syrup in the same category, but I’m not sure.
Well, it doesn’t spoil but it does crystalize so can you just add water to make it a liquid again? I don’t use honey so I have no idea.
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