A Quiz For People Who Know Everything

[BigusDicus 9,835]

A QUIZ FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING

 

 

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 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 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 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.

Edited July 2, 2009 by BigusDicus

[bolly 0]

That was interesting. I did pretty well. But the lettuce does not hold true in japan. We have freeze dried lettuce.

[Sailfast 503]

That was interesting. I did pretty well. But the lettuce does not hold true in japan. We have freeze dried lettuce.

I was thinking banana. Never seen it any other way but fresh.

[chuckrivera 1]

^ Uh, dried banana chips in trail mix? Pureed and canned in baby food? Ice cream?

[joekicker 53]

Actually the three words beginning with "dw" are dwarf, dwell, dweeb and dwindle. Same with punctuation; actually there are several quite different dashes for example. And there are other landmarks that move backwards including glaciers and the Chicago River.

 

 

Fun to have questions outside the box, though. Good one.

[shamasdog 1]

I got one right, is that a good score

Edited July 2, 2009 by shamasdog

[midlifecrisis 4,030]

^ Uh, dried banana chips in trail mix? Pureed and canned in baby food? Ice cream?

frozen banana too with chocolate coating

[short 215]

I was thinking banana. Never seen it any other way but fresh.

 

 

Watermelon