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SOMETHING DIFFERENT; TRY YOUR KNOWLEDGE


There are only nine questions.

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 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 ellip ses. 


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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Be your self; there's no body better qualified !                    "I came into this world with nothing , I still have most of it"

 

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I got 5 out of the 9 so what does that make me Jim?   No smart a'd remarks now my friend..............laughing.gif

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6 1/2.

Cheers,
Sheba.

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I've found it best not to try to prove how smart I am in case I succeed (think about it wink)


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Just as an aside - re the pear, in Japan a mate brought a bottle of whiskey with a snake in the bottle. And yes we did drink it..... it didnt start to fall to pieces until we topped it up with some ordinary Johhny Walker red

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Ma wrote:

I got 5 out of the 9 so what does that make me Jim?   No smart a'd remarks now my friend..............laughing.gif



        I never claim to know too much,
                       theroy!
        more people disappear for knowing too much than not knowing enough.LOL.


        Must work, I,m still here!

 



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5 for me. The lettuce, I must question tho. When first married. my little sister thought she was being thrifty and froze one she had bought on special. She still has not lived it down.
Cheers Dellie

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