Thanks Sybil Ann!
This is a quiz for
people who know a lot! 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 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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