Sunday, February 5, 2012

Here's a quiz for you!

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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