Sunday
12Oct2008
A quiz for people who know everything!
Sunday, 10.12.08 @ 12:46AM
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 o f 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.'
The answers are in the comments.
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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 backwards 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 Aspargaus 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.
4. Raspberries?
6. Is "dweeb" a word?
i got 6 right
Strawberry "seeds" are actually the fruits, with one seed each. The big red sweet thing is actually not part of the strawberry fruit at all.
Dweeb is too a word!
Also, when is watermelon sold in processed form? Juice, I guess, but otherwise? At least as rare as lettuce.
I've never seen watermelon sold any way beside fresh. Canned watermelon?
Stilettos
Cashew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew
Onions/scallions/shallots/chives can reproduce perennially.
2: east-facing landmarks are also moving backwards relative to the earth's rotation.
8: you can too buy lettuce cooked, in China, you hegemonic eurocentrist.
9: salve? sunscreen?
Spurs
Sling-backs
Spikes (don't some sports call their cleated shoes "spikes"? Am I making this up?)
For #8, I did think of lettuce, but I discarded it because it is sold cut for salads and shredded for sandwiches. While it is still "fresh", I counted this as "processed".
I was very proud to think of 13 of the 14 punctuations. My 14th was "slash", but of course it really isn't a punctuation. I missed "elipsis".
I got 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, (8), 9
and if you watched the olympics, the scores were shown live as the judges scored them during the bout
Great quiz
Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles by Eric Toensmeier
http://www.amazon.com/Perennial-Vegetables-Artichokes-Gardeners-Delicious/dp/1931498407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223909283&sr=8-1
And the non-processable fruit I had in mind was banana, but then I realized they come as 'chips' too...
Fun quiz, 7 out of nine, and proud to have all three Dw-words correct, being a Dutchman...