Thursday, July 16, 2009

A QUIZ FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING

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 severalgrowing 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 a r e 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 will be posted in a couple of days.

Good Luck

4 comments:

Drew said...

Thought I would guess...
1. uh...
2. All of them. They are all constantly deteriorating back into the materials from which they started. (ok, that's my smart-ass answer)
3. Tomatoes
4. Strawberry
5. The bottom of the bottle is finished after the pear is inside.
6. dwindle, dweeb
7. period, comma, colon, semi-colon, question mark, exclamation point, apostrophe, dash, quotation mark, slash,
8. corn-on-the-cob
9. Shoes, sneakers, sandles, socks, snow boots, stilletos

Julie said...

Fun quiz! Had my mind working at 10p!

1. No idea. And even when Drew told me the answer I still didn't understand!
2. A waterway of some sort. Like the Chicago River.
3. Asparagus and ??.
4. Strawberries
5. The pear was grown inside the bottle hanging off a tree. (Though I like Drew's answer better!)
6. Dwarf, Dwindle (bonus: Dweeb)
7. Period, Comma, Exclamation Point, Colon, Semi-colon, Dash, Hyphen, Forward Slash, Backward Slash, Question Mark.
8. Watermelon
9. Sandals, Slippers, Sneakers, Socks, Shoes, Stockings.

Chrissi said...

ok here it goes!
1) boxing?
2) niagara falls
3) asparagus and artichoke
4) strawberries
5) the pear grows in the bottle?
6) dwarf, dwell and ?
7) comma, question mark, period, exclamation point, colon, sem-colon, apostraphe
8) lettuce
9) shoes, socks, slippers, stockings, sandals, sneakers

good quiz aunt deb!!!

Mariea said...

1. boxing
2. Niagara Falls
3. Artichokes, Broccoli
4. strawberries
5. grow the pear in the bottle
6.dwarf, dwell, dwindle
7. period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma,semi colon,colon,dash, hypen brackets,
8. lettuce
9. sleepers, sandals, socks, skis, slippers, sneakers

this was fun